content: But you are right because they do ban pornography. Its funny you mention that because after we got home from this 'sex toy shop' quite literally the very first CCTV story we watched was a couple caught going to hotels and making (then distributing) pornography!  These 'Made in China' porno's are a hot topic the government is pledging to crack down on. As for sex toys or XXX stores. I've seen 3 of them. 2 are in Diplomatic Districts (sorta tells you something) and one in a Guangzhou Hotel District which hilariously had just totally open front doors with dildos hanging in full view of any passing family on the sidewalk lol.  But it does seem like 'dildos' or whatever sex toys are permitted, sexy lingerie stores are abundant, some of these Japanese comic books seem to me pretty damn close to 'Soft Porn' of some sort and lately two other things I've noticed in just the last year:   Suddenly almost every pharmacy or supermarket has a fairly impressive and prominant 'KY Lotion' Shelf. Lotions, 40 Flavours of Lube, Exotic Condoms, 'pleasure massage products'.    Somewhere in the last year Cialis/Viagra or whatever the 'boner pills' are being sold without prescriptions. Still behind shelves but just ask and they will ring it up. I even noticed they have quite a wide variety, generics, whatever various versions, large boxes for savings or 'singles' now.   Whats the deal? It might help to know China has just passed the '2-Child Policy'. That might explain why there are 'toddler clothing stores' showing up on every damn corner around here.  So I think if anything they want to keep cracking down on pornography itself more than ever. Basically they do NOT want people watching people have sex but instead want couples to spend that time instead doing it to themselves hehe.