Color Climax Corporation

Color Climax
ApS
Industry Pornography
Founded 1967
Founder Peter Theander
Jens Theander
Headquarters Copenhagen, Denmark
Products Pornographic films, Pornographic magazines
Website www.colorclimax.com

Color Climax Corporation ApS (CCC) is a Danish pornography producer headquartered in Copenhagen.[1] It had been one of the leading producers of European pornography up until the 1990s. Since then, CCC has recessed most of its assets, but because its earlier works attract admirers of classic pornography, CCC still functions today via the Internet.[2] Color Climax Corporation (CCC) began in 1967[3] with the publication of the porn magazine ColorClimax, despite pornography being illegal in Denmark until 1969.

Films

In 1969 Denmark legalized the production of all kinds of pornography.[4] In the 1970s CCC began to produce 8 mm pornographic film loops. By the 1980s, video tape had replaced the film loops, sometimes as compilations of previously released material. CCC films usually had a wider range of contents including bestiality,[5] some of which last starred Bodil Joensen, and other content not widely available at the time. Urolagnia was also displayed. By 2004, Color Climax had past film stars such as Rocco Siffredi and John Holmes in their archives on their website.

Child pornography

Color Climax was the first to produce commercial child pornography films.[4] From 1969 to 1979, Color Climax was responsible for the relatively large-scale distribution of child pornography.[6]

Between 1971 and 1979 the company produced 36 or more 10-minute films for its Lolita series.[4][7][8] These films featured young girls, mainly with men, but sometimes with women or other children.[4][7][8] The participating girls were mainly between the ages of 7 and 11 years; however, some were younger.[4][7][8] Titles included Incest Family, Pre-Teen Sex, Sucking Daddy, and Child Love.[7]

Magazines

CCC was also known for its magazine series with titles such as Color Climax and Rodox. In their day, these were regarded as some of the best quality pornographic magazines in Europe.[9] This was the case particularly in the UK, where prior to the year 2000, the sale of hardcore porn was illegal.[9] Before this date some British sex shops sold softcore British magazines in plastic packaging, with a Rodox or Color Climax front cover on the outside.[9] The same shops sometimes sold watered-down reproductions of CCC titles, with any hardcore images removed.[9] CCC magazines presented a wide variety of European and American stars. Photo-sets typically began with the models fully clothed, and ended with an image of male ejaculation, a storyline shared with other Danish magazines of the period such as Fucking and Con Amore.[10] Many of those photos remained available as of the middle of May of 2014 via the Color Climax website, and they were also circulated widely—though they were so circulated in violation of copyright—around the Internet via file-sharing networks and other sources. Still photographs from the Lolita film series were also published in Color Climax magazines.[4] By 2006, the company had published over 3,000 different books and magazines with a total of over 140 million editions; 8.5 million films, and almost a million video cassettes.[3]

Magazine titles

Initially the company published various one-off magazines with titles such as Carnaby Kinks, Young Lesbians, and Fuck Around the Clock before settling on a series of numbered titles. These were produced in A5 format, consisted of full-color photographs, and typically featured five or six photo sets of around ten pages each; each set would be accompanied by a short descriptive text. While not all the titles ran concurrently, subject matter from magazine to magazine frequently overlapped. Many themes, such as big bust, interracial, uniform, or ethnically themed sets would appear in any title, dependent on the activity being performed rather than the participants.

In the mid-1990s, the magazine titles were sold to the German studio Silwa, which continued them with their own in-house picture sets featuring similar scenes.

Notable models

Both the magazines and the films used a wide variety of male and female models, and appearances more than half a dozen shoots by the same model were rare, especially by the 1980s. Models were typically only credited by a first name, often assumed.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "COLOR CLIMAX POLICES ITS IMAGES; WINS FIRST SUIT - MORE CONTENT PROVIDERS CONSIDERING LEGAL ACTION". AVN. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  2. ↑ "Color Climax Corporation web page". Color Climax Corporation. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Color Climax Offers 39 Years Of Content". XBIZ. 2006-03-15. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Vickers, Graham (2008). Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again. Chicago Review Press. p. 161. ISBN 1-55652-682-2.
  5. ↑ Kerekes, David (2004). Creeping Flesh: The Horror Fantasy Film Book. Headpress. p. 140. ISBN 1-900486-36-9.
  6. ↑ Jenkins, Philip (2001). Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet. NYU Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN 0-8147-4263-7.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Sheldon, Kerry & Howitt, Dennis (2007). Sex Offenders and the Internet. John Wiley and Sons. p. 74. ISBN 0-470-02801-7.
  8. 1 2 3 Quayle, Ethel (2003). Child Pornography: An Internet Crime. Psychology Press. p. 44. ISBN 1-58391-243-6.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Kick, Russ (2005). Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (and Everything in Between). Disinformation Company. p. 170. ISBN 1-932857-17-6.
  10. ↑ Kent, Allen, Lancour, Harold, Nasri, William Z. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 8 - El Salvador: National Library in to Ford Foundation. Marcel Dekker. p. 167. ISBN 0-8247-2108-X.

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