Officials in charge of censoring pornography for the southern province of Hunan gave a rare and revealing peek into the strange (and quite possibly libido-numbing) demands of their job in a rare, local TV interview now making the rounds online.

In the space of one week alone, a four-man team in the office watched more than 700 pornographic DVDs from beginning to end, the officials said.

“When you’re in this job, even if you don’t want to watch anymore, you have to keep watching closely,” said one worker, 70-year-old Liu Xiaozhen, who demonstrated his daily viewing routine with the bored, disaffected thousand-yard stare of a man who has seen it all, many times over.

Pornography in China – like prostitution and other sex-related commerce – is illegal but, increasingly, readily available throughout the country.