German adult magazines released in Australia are usually hardcore.
Most are passed as Category 2, but some have been Refused Classification.
New Climax
Publisher ZBF GMBH / Germany
The hardcore content of this title means it is passed as Category 2.
No. 4 is the earliest edition in the National Classification Database. It was passed as Category 2 in May 2003.
No. 6: RC
In June 2004, a 100-page edition of NEWS CLIMAX No. 6 (March 2004) was banned.
Claredale Distributors was the applicant.
No. 16: RC
In October 2009, a 100-page edition of NEWS CLIMAX No. 16 was banned by the Classification Board.
Claredale Distributors was the applicant.
October 2009
Pubs 1(a) The publication is classified RC in accordance with the National Classification Code, Publications Table, 1.(a) as publications that “describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.”
– Classification Board
Trans-Sex Climax
Published by ZBF GMBH / Germany
The hardcore content of this title means it is passed as Category 2.
No. 2 is the earliest edition in the National Classification Database. It was passed as Category 2 in May 2003.
No. 6 & No. 9: RC
In March 2005, an 84-page edition of No. 6 (January 2005) was banned by the Classification Board.
This was followed in April 2007, by an 84-page edition of No. 9 (October 2006).
The reason for the refusal was the same.
May 2005 & April 2007
Pubs 1(a) The publication is classified RC in accordance with the National Classification Code, Publications Table, 1.(a) as publications that “describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.”
– Classification Board
In both cases, Claredale Distributors was the applicant.