In the annals of bizarre bureaucratic desk jobs, the Chinese government may have all others beat.

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.