Color Climax Corporation (CCC) is a Danish pornography company. It has its headquarters in Copenhagen. It had been the leading producer of European pornography until 1990s. Since then CCC has recessed most of its assets, but because its earlier works attract admirers of so-called "classic pornography", CCC still functions today via the Internet on a large scale.
CCC was founded in 1966 as a clandestine black-and-white pornographic magazine, since the ban on pornography in Denmark was to be abolished in 1968. In 1969 the first colour issue of Color Climax was published. CCC became a major supplier of pornography to the continent in the early 1970s because in this period production of pornography was still illegal in most other European countries.
In the 1970s, CCC began to produce pornographic films. These were 8mm loops. Because of their length, availability and lack of elaborate plots, they differed from standard pornographic feature films of the period. By 1980s, video tapes were released, sometimes as compilations of loops. CCC films were mostly in line of the chic pornography of the era with stylised surroundings, women wearing garter stockings, etc. However, CCC films usually had a wider range of contents including bestiality (always in specific context, some of them starring Bodil Joensen) and she-males. Watersports were displayed as conventional sexual acts. By 2004 Color Climax had many popular european filmstars such as Anna Marek, Tove Jensen, Rocco Siffredi, Tiffany Towers and John Holmes in their archives on their website.
CCC was also known for its magazine series with titles such as Color Climax and Rodox, which presented a wide variety of photosets featuring a mix of European and American stars. Many of those photosets are still available today via the Color Climax website and also circulate widely (though in violation of copyright) around the Internet via file-sharing networks and other sources.
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