Color Climax Corporation

The Color Climax Corporation (CCC) was a major Danish manufacturer of pornographic magazines and movies based in Copenhagen .

history

The company began in 1966 with the publication of the pornographic magazine Color Climax by the Theander brothers in Copenhagen, initially illegally because pornography was also banned in Denmark at that time. When the pornography ban was lifted in Denmark in 1968, the situation changed and the magazine could be produced legally. Since pornography was banned in most other countries for a few years longer than in Denmark, the global demand for it was initially met mainly in Denmark (and especially in Copenhagen), which allowed the company to grow rapidly and to publish more magazine titles. In 1969 the first color printed porn magazine of the CCC appeared. In the 1970s, the company began producing pornographic films, which initially appeared as Super 8 films and later as video cassettes . In addition to child and youth pornography, the Color Climax Corporation gained notoriety through animal pornography films, in particular with the actress Bodil Joensen .

Child and youth pornography

In the 1970s, Color Climax became one of the largest professional providers of child and youth porn . These appeared in the form of magazines and Super 8 films, and later also on video.

Youth pornographic productions

These publications were based on the laws that existed in the respective countries in the 1970s. Until 2001, it was allowed in Denmark to produce porn with actors aged 15 and over (the Danish age of consent ). Color Climax developed porn with young actors aged 15 and over. The clothes and hairstyle gave them a particularly young look.

Child pornographic productions

In countries where the production and not the distribution of child pornography was prohibited in the 1970s, Color Climax published child pornography. These countries were Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. In this pornography, pornographic nudes ranging from children to sexual intercourse with children could be seen. The age of the children was between about five and twelve years. In the early 1980s, child pornography was banned in Denmark and Sweden, and in 1985 in the Netherlands as well.

Latest development

For a long time the Color Climax Corporation was one of the largest producers of pornographic material in the world and, together with the originally Swedish company Private Media Group, determined large parts of the European market for pornography. The company is no longer active in the erotic sector. In the Internet , however, there by an American licensee a paid site that offers the original content of the CCC in the form of movies, photos, etc.. The CCC magazines are now published under license by the ZBF in Wiesbaden. The rights for the VHS and DVD area went to the Danish EP PRODUCTIONS, which in July 2006 passed on the exclusive worldwide rights to the German company Musketier Media. Due to the upcoming revision of § 184 StGB, Musketier Media stopped selling the Teenage Bestseller series on September 1st, 2008 as a precaution.

literature

• David Hebditch, Nick Anning: Porn Gold. Inside the Pornography Business . Faber and Faber, London and Boston 1988, ISBN 0-571-14683-X
  English .
• David Hebditch, Nick Anning: Porn-Gold. The business of pornography, a trillion dollar story . Translated from the English by Martin Brickner. Jugend und Volk, Vienna and Munich 1989, ISBN 3-224-16041-1
  Abridged German-language edition .