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January 24th, 2006, 01:43 PM
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3, has long had a well-deserved reputation for flashy booths, flashy games, and flashy women.
This year, the Entertainment Software Associaton, which oversees the annual show in Los Angeles, has apparently chosen a different direction -- possibly eliminating the models known as "booth babes" from the show floor.
The International Game Developers Association's Sex & Games Blog was tipped off by "an exhibitor" willing to share some of the changes to the E3 Exhibitors Handbook in '06, and the landscape will be changing. There's going to be more square inches of cotton, polyester, spandex, and leather covering companies' booth babes this year.
Here are the new rules: "Material, including live models, conduct that is sexually explicit and/or sexually provocative, including but not limited to nudity, partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms, are prohibited on the Show floor, all common areas, and at any access points to the Show. ESA, in its sole discretion, will determine whether material is acceptable." And what happens if a company violates these new rules? Well, there's one verbal warning, and after that it's a $5,000 penalty due on the spot.
Read entire story here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060124/tc_zd/169837).
This year, the Entertainment Software Associaton, which oversees the annual show in Los Angeles, has apparently chosen a different direction -- possibly eliminating the models known as "booth babes" from the show floor.
The International Game Developers Association's Sex & Games Blog was tipped off by "an exhibitor" willing to share some of the changes to the E3 Exhibitors Handbook in '06, and the landscape will be changing. There's going to be more square inches of cotton, polyester, spandex, and leather covering companies' booth babes this year.
Here are the new rules: "Material, including live models, conduct that is sexually explicit and/or sexually provocative, including but not limited to nudity, partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms, are prohibited on the Show floor, all common areas, and at any access points to the Show. ESA, in its sole discretion, will determine whether material is acceptable." And what happens if a company violates these new rules? Well, there's one verbal warning, and after that it's a $5,000 penalty due on the spot.
Read entire story here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060124/tc_zd/169837).