(New Zealand) provides a detailed breakdown of the "Color Climax Corp" and "Children Love" series, categorizing them as records of actual child sexual abuse rather than mere "pornography". Office of Justice Programs (OJP)

Color Climax Corporation was a Danish pornography producer infamous for being the first to commercially distribute child pornography, including a magazine series titled "Child Love." Background and Context The Corporation

Internationally, Color Climax publications were often met with legal opposition. In New Zealand, for instance, the Indecent Publications Tribunal classified multiple CCC magazines, including issues of Teenage Sex and Color Climax itself, as "unconditionally indecent" as early as the 1980s and 1990s. These legal designations are a public record of the harmful nature of the material. By the 1990s, Color Climax had recessed most of its assets as a leading European producer. Today, the company's website has been taken down over concerns related to its history of involvement with child pornography, and the corporation is now considered defunct.

This feature analyzes the color palette used in the magazine, specifically focusing on the climax or most attention-grabbing moments. It involves:

: While originally legal in Denmark, these materials were recriminalized in 1980. International organizations like the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) actively work to remove these images from the internet to prevent the ongoing victimization of those filmed.

The Color Climax Corporation was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1967 by the Theander brothers. At a time when pornography was still illegal in Denmark, they began publishing the pornographic magazine ColorClimax as a pioneering, if clandestine, effort. When Denmark fully legalized the production of pornography in 1969, CCC expanded its operations rapidly, becoming a leading producer of European pornography and film loops. While its adult content was widely distributed, often through a network of European sex shops, the company’s most notorious legacy is its involvement in the production of explicit material involving children.

If you are interested in the history of these publications from a legal or sociological perspective, you may find the following types of official and academic documents relevant: Government and Legal Reports Ministerial Committee of Inquiry into Pornography (1989)