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7/9/2025, 10:40:07 AM
>“When I saw this movie,” says Rocco in his thick Italian accent, “it gave me nightmares. Night after night. Fassbender in that movie went through exactly what I went through. All of it.”
>It began in 2004 when Rocco decided to quit porn. He’d just turned 40, and his eldest son was starting to reach the age where children wonder what daddy does for a living: “When I decided to do porn, I said, ‘No family.’ Then I decided to start a family, then the boys came. And they grew. I didn’t want them to see, so I thought it was better to stop before they grew too much.”
>“One day I’m playing with my son,” he continues, “and then my body changed. I felt I needed to go.”
>So Rocco left. He would disappear for days at a time, scouring the internet for sex. “I started to see hookers every day,” he recalls. “Also transsexuals, old women, any kind of thing. I didn’t figure out that I was addicted to sex.”
>His lowest point, he says, mirrored a sequence in Shame where Michael Fassbender’s character, after being spurned by a woman and assaulted by her boyfriend, enters a gay sex club where he begrudgingly receives oral sex from a male stranger. A similar scene occurred between Rocco and a random man at a sauna in France.
>“There was the point. I went to this, with a guy,” says Rocco. “You see in Shame that he went with a guy not because he’s a homosexual, but because his brain is so fucked up that he needs to do anything to get pleasure, to get sweet release.”
>It began in 2004 when Rocco decided to quit porn. He’d just turned 40, and his eldest son was starting to reach the age where children wonder what daddy does for a living: “When I decided to do porn, I said, ‘No family.’ Then I decided to start a family, then the boys came. And they grew. I didn’t want them to see, so I thought it was better to stop before they grew too much.”
>“One day I’m playing with my son,” he continues, “and then my body changed. I felt I needed to go.”
>So Rocco left. He would disappear for days at a time, scouring the internet for sex. “I started to see hookers every day,” he recalls. “Also transsexuals, old women, any kind of thing. I didn’t figure out that I was addicted to sex.”
>His lowest point, he says, mirrored a sequence in Shame where Michael Fassbender’s character, after being spurned by a woman and assaulted by her boyfriend, enters a gay sex club where he begrudgingly receives oral sex from a male stranger. A similar scene occurred between Rocco and a random man at a sauna in France.
>“There was the point. I went to this, with a guy,” says Rocco. “You see in Shame that he went with a guy not because he’s a homosexual, but because his brain is so fucked up that he needs to do anything to get pleasure, to get sweet release.”
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