> Porn just isn’t a necessity even if some folks really enjoy it.

So isn't speech! Not everyone need privileges to talk about human rights or democracy. China's doing fine with neither(officially).

By the way, unofficially and anecdotally, coastal Chinese prostitution as well as porn seem to be getting bigger and more wicked faster. I wonder which comes first: puritanism, or erosion of industrial base. This whole slow movement could be just a symptom than culprit.