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Charting a new course after retiring from acting, Rocco shoots a recruiting video to attract students to the world's first "porn university."

His office flooded with applications, Rocco and his team interview promising candidates to select the academy's first 14 students.

With the help of adult film stars Carolina Abril and Lara De Santis, Rocco auditions more candidates for the academy -- men and women alike.

Porn veteran Valeria Visconti joins Rocco and the judges as they screen the last round of candidates hoping to join the academy in Budapest.

Rocco puts the finishing touches on the campus in Budapest. On their first night at the academy, the actors face a pair of surprise challenges.

After taking a blood test, the students tackle their first day of classes. An unexpected departure throws Rocco's confidence in his project.

Hoping to lighten the mood, Rocco organizes a volleyball game with a special surprise for the winners. Rocco helps one actor with performance anxiety.

The class gets a primer on classic porn characters, then heads to the dungeon for a hands-on lesson in submission and domination.

Rocco and Gabriele clash over the day's lesson, which includes a cold hosing-down to teach the students about working in decidedly unsexy conditions.

In the classroom, the students learn the finer points of sexual positions performed for the camera, then try them out on the set of a pro porn shoot.

Rocco submits to a "casting" for a sex toy modeled literally on his physique, and meets with a group of women filmmakers producing a new kind of porn.

A reporter asks Rocco about his career's effect on his family. Students reflect on the emotional toll of the school. The class gets a night out.

Four actresses arrive at the academy to help as Rocco guides the students through the stages of capturing the action on film.

Rocco explains how to interpret a role and gives tips for maintaining concentration and virility on the set, then puts the students to the test.

Rocco teaches the students how to use all their senses while performing, then introduces "Porn 2.0," where the actors film themselves during a scene.

The students must run the gauntlet on a paintball course while dressed as giant phalluses. Later, Rocco offers the student-directors some tips.

Rocco takes some time off from the academy with Gabriele to enjoy a massage and explore another business venture: creating a new porn web series.

Rocco turns the actors loose to begin work on the class's final projects and confers with the directors about achieving a personal style.

Rocco and Gabriele review the students' film projects and struggle to judge whether the pupils took the academy's lessons to heart.

With classes now at an end, Rocco prepares a graduation ceremony and celebration. After receiving their diplomas, the students cut loose.

In this alternate cut of the show's first episode, Rocco gets the ball rolling recruiting students for his new "porn university."

After welcoming the students to the academy, Rocco introduces their tutors and leads a field trip to the set of a professional porn shoot.

Rocco offers the students lessons about domination and submission, working with different types of characters and performing for the camera.

The students learn how to use all their senses to maintain concentration on set, then get a lesson in filming themselves while performing.

Rocco turns the students loose to begin work on their final film projects, then judges their work before throwing a wild graduation party.