Current and back issues of COLOURS magazine are now available in Apple’s App Store on a newly launched COLOURS iPad app – but not all of the issues have made it through Apple’s censor.

The censored images and covers include: Issue #28 – Touch showing a white man kissing a black man on the cover; Issue #31 – Water which, to tie in with the theme of water, shows a naked baby peeing on the cover; the AIDS issue which shows images of a penis and of a vagina on the cover and in one of the articles showed a woman breastfeeding; and the Lust issue which included an image of elephants mating.

Issue #28 - Touch and Issue #31 - Water

Here’s what COLOURS had to say about the censoring: “What’s even more annoying [than being censored] is that this comes from Apple, a company that has spent the past thirty years encouraging us to think different, fight the status quo, be free. It’s taken the opportunity to associate its image with people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Now that they have developed a (not even so innovative) device, made it the most desirable object on the planet and established the rules for what it can contain, they don’t seem so passionate about supporting different ideas or ensuring freedom of expression. They rejected our app for containing “frequent” and “intense” display of “sexual content or nudity”.

You can view the censored covers here. Give us your thoughts on this below…