‘I watched Supersex and racy scenes made me ill – Netflix is turning into adult site’

I watched Supersex on Netflix… and I’m beginning to wish I hadn’t bothered.

The racy romp-fest charts Rocco Siffredi’s rise to fame in the world of adult films – from attempting (and ultimately failing) to have good sex with a girlfriend to starring in full-blown orgy scenes full of pleasure and plenty of groaning.

Real-life porn star Rocco famously starred in more than 1,300 adult films, and for actor Alessandro Borghi, who plays him in the new Netflix show, just a fraction of those sex scenes – 50 in total – took 95 days to film. He told Variety: “It was funny because the first couple of weeks we were all a little uneasy and then the third week, we just stood there naked looking at scenes on the monitor. So, something must have worked.”

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Truth be told, I’m not a fan of sex scenes in films when they’re drawn out and awkward. I don’t mind a quick flash to naked bodies and some grunting, but I’d much prefer it to be left to the imagination in a nice fade-to-black scenario. Call me a prude, but I don’t need to see a full-frontal shot of a penis – prosthetic or not – on my flatscreen TV.

It’s not just me. Other viewers have been left “sickened” by what they’ve witnessed on-screen, and coupled with the atrocious English dubbing that seems to accompany most foreign titles on the streaming site, it felt like an immediate turn-off.

The clue is in the name, Supersex features a super amount of sex. One scene actually starts out sweet, with Rocco and his naked partner Tina making love before she begins to draw a huge heart shape on his pelvic bone, teasing what they know about one another with their eyes closed. But it soon turns bizarre, as Rocco’s narration is heard saying: “She’d drawn my d*** inside that heart. And there, inside that heart, I felt it explode.”

Right then the camera zooms out and we see Rocco’s flaccid penis next to his new tattoo, which reads: “You are mine”. And that shot lingers! It’s not a quick flash – it’s almost an encouragement to take a long look.

So, you might be asking – what did you expect from a semi-fictional biopic about the world’s most infamous porn star? Well, as a Netflix project, let’s just say I didn’t wholly expect to see actual spit foaming from the characters’ mouths and dripping over their bodies, much as it would in, perhaps… real porn?

The emotionally fraught scenes are constantly tinged with graphic, rough sex. Later in episode five, Tina tells Rocco she’s lost their baby – in the middle of a romp. “Wash yourself,” she says. “My period came back when you were away. There is no baby any more.”

In a disturbing scene, she blames their sex life on the miscarriage, yelling at Rocco: “I felt how hard you pushed it in when I told you I was pregnant. Were you purposely trying to kill our child? Just pushing and pushing? You’re a murderer.

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“You’ve ruined my life, you know that? By ravaging my p***y! Because you have no idea what feelings are. You penetrate, empty yourself and you’re done. And all you know how to do is destroy everyone you love with your penis!”

That pretty much sums up the whole show for me. Any emotional depth, any nuance, is stripped away by the outrageous sex scenes that seem like nothing more than a ploy to get people talking.

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