E3 hotties put your clothes back on

#1 Well..
are you gonna take her to the beach?
..
or anywhere else?

I dont think there is any sex at e3.


nothing wrong with showing some skin.
considering this is a fact of life and it is reality, I dont have a problem with it.

what about fella's walking around with no shirt at all?
some girls go crazy for that stuff, and that seems to be ok.

kinda like a guy does when they see a really nice looking woman scantily clad.

I would prefer my kids learned about sex and love than violence and hate.
I can accept they will learn it all.
so I will be there to guide them thru the right and wrong's of it and explain along the way the details.

but as far as this goes. I prefer it to heavy violence.
better to have the ladies there all soft and nice, rather than some dude holding a gun or a violent display.

#2 If I go to the beach my daughter would be in a appropriate bikini and I would expect her to have something on like that as she will be in the water. I would want my kid to learn about love from me and my wife showing love for each other and not some horny teenager chasing down a scantily clad women as that is not how I would want her to get a husband. As far as guys walking around with out a shirt I am not a big fan of either and its not becuase I am out of shape ... atleast well not really. But even around the house I dont walk around with a shirt on. As for the violence part I didnt even think about that. I no longer play violent video games while my child is awake. Man its getting tough to raise a kid these days. Everything is either Sex or Killing...

#3 E3 isn't the beach. It's a tradeshow for a industry which deals in billions of dollars. It's also an industry that is male dominated and for the most part likes it that way.

I really wouldn't care about this if the industry was 50/50 male/female and the "Booth Babe" mentality was still accepted. I think the point is: it wouldn't be.

#4

Quote:I dont think there is any sex at e3.

Basically the biggest geek fest anywhere in the world... I somehow doubt it...

I appreciate hot and sexy women. But not an Expo... If I want a flyer, i'll take one from a table, or someone who actually knows what a shader is and can give you some details on the game/tech. Not some stupid model.

#5 @Burning

Speaking of that G$ interviewed some of the Booth Babes and most didnt even know what game they were there for...

#6 That's common. Usually they are hired models who are there to look pretty and hand out stuff. They get hired for trade shows for cars, electronics, videogames, etc. It is like the staffing companies for protests. You can hire protesters who don't care about your cause. But it sure looks like there are a lot of people who care when the cameras roll.

#7 Absolutely. I don't think "sterile" is the answer. There is of course a line somewhere. I mean, having strippers and lap dances at a booth aren't ok right? I would say that simulating sex acts is probably over that line too. This is something that their new rules address.

#8 @Badguy

Quote:I dont think there is any sex at e3.

Perhaps I should show you some pictures of the last E3 trip I made?

In all honesty though it was fun to walk around, sample games and see who could get the most photos possible with booth babes and have a good laugh about it in the evening over food and beers with the gang from 21-6, MGT and GG.

#9 Well it's an industry show not a theme park to have fun. The conference is not designed for non industry and media people.

Take the kids somewhere else. If you get one of the kids that starts programming then maybe
that could influence them.

#10 I have am confused and fascinated by the disparity between the concerns of violence and sexuality in the dev community, or the entertainment industry as a whole for that matter.

#11 I dont think kids are allowed anyways.. I went last year and saw one kid in all 3 days. No idea how he got in... Its for industry professionals, and you have to prove that before you can get a pass.

#12 Yes, there's an age minimum of 18 for E3. Bring the kids to IGC and just keep them away from the devs that've had too much at the bar >.>

#13 Hot women are great. Games are great. But NOT together. Looking isn't fun anyway. For all geeks out there, get a girl friend and stop complaining about the girls wearing clothes again.

#14 Considering your daughter can see everything booth babes have on herself, I really don't see what the issue is.

The question you should be asking is: What can we do about the violence in video games? I think that, out of the two things which sell video games (sex and violence) the thing we should be more concerned about is the violence. Naked people just do not bother me. Now we don't want Mario bending over the Princess when I beat Bowser, but that's not really what I am getting at.

Our society choses to accept violence, and reject sex. As a result, we have a sexually-repressed society full of people who think it's ok for their 5 year old to watch TV and see the TV-version of Die Hard, but not a nipple. Amazingly enough, I have nipples, and chances are, everyone reading this post does too.

Guns are ok to buy everywhere in the US. Sex toys aren't. Does this make sense? Guns really have a single purpose: killing things, and then there's handguns which really have a single purpose of killing people. Sex toys also have a single purpose, but nevermind that. (Since it's not appropriate to talk about that, but ok to talk about shooting people)

That's really all I have to say about that at this time. Keep asking questions, just don't stop once you hit a question. Start asking questions about the questions.

#15 I was just giving an example. You could replace my daughter with you a female developer. How would she feel walking around there? I know sex is a part of the industry I guess i just wish it wasn't so much. How many females would dress up in a metal bikini to fight evil?

#16 "we have a sexually-repressed society full of people who think it's ok for their 5 year old to watch TV and see the TV-version of Die Hard, but not a nipple."

@Pat Wilson: That's a beautiful quote. I totally agree. If I wasn't so busy, I would scan my nipple and post it.

#17 Pointless discussion again, concentrating on a point on convincing yourself its a problem because someone mad ea news story out of it. Why do mostly americans do this?

#18 If you cant handle your 18 YEAR OLD daughter seeing other women in bikinis, then you are too protective of her. You cant just waltz minors into E3, they are pretty strick on the age limit now. Besides, women drool over "studly" shirtless men, I dont see why guys cant do the same for women. The whole equality thing is BS otherwise.

As for Metel bikinis... I dunno, go to GenCon. There are girls there wearing chainmail tops/bras who AREN'T booth babes. They're just attendees.

#19 Bad news. :(

#20 Actually this is fairly old news (the E3 rules were changed 3? 4? 5 months ago?) It's just the first time the main stream press has reported on it

In fact the rules weren't actually "changed" at all... They were just solidified in a more legal form with more examples and better descriptions of what went and what didn't.

The levels of nudity allowed however are the same for this E3 as they have been for every E3 prior, it's just easier for exhibitors to work out how far they are allowed to go as opposed to the rather informal setting that was in place before

As for the babes themselves, I could write a lot of garbage about why they are there, testosterone driven mindsets, the lack of woman with buying power in the upper echelons in the game industry but frankly we know all that. Meh. E3's a faire first (with rides and toys and things to ogle) and foremost