Legal analysis: Not illegal, but illegal to spread. For this kind of books have sold will have to buy, but the law only punishes the dissemination, but not punish the buyer, the law also only prohibit trafficking, dissemination, copying and so on, if only buy their own look is not illegal, but if the purchase, but also organize people to see, then the public security organs will be punished on the organizer, the general look at the customer will not be punished, but, but also sometimes will be given a public security warning or a fine.

Legal basis: "Chinese People's **** and State Criminal Law" Article 363 For the purpose of profit-making, production, copying, publishing, trafficking, dissemination of obscene materials, shall be sentenced to less than three years of fixed-term imprisonment, detention or control, and a fine; the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to more than three years to less than ten years of fixed-term imprisonment, and a fine; the circumstances are especially serious, shall be sentenced to more than ten years of fixed-term imprisonment, or a fine. If the circumstances are particularly serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall be fined or have his or her property confiscated. Article 364 dissemination of obscene books, films, videos, pictures or other obscene materials, the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years, detention or control.