From PCMag.com: It’s that time again. Anyone who has attended a major tech trade show knows that many booths house not only gadgets but attractive women, commonly known as “booth babes.”
As The Wire noted in its history of booth babes last year, the concept dates back to the 1960s at CES, though at the time they were known as the more PC “CES Guides.” The moniker “booth babes” appears to have arrived in the mid-80s (shocking) and has persisted to this day, for better or worse.
To be fair, while some of the ladies manning the CES booths sport skimpy outfits, it’s not exactly scandalous these days. For that, you might want to return to Vegas next week for the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. When AVN used to coincide with CES, we checked it out (for work, of course) and saw some … things.
Whatever. You’re not even reading this anymore, are you? That’s right. Just clicky clicky the pretty pictures.
Read more at PCMag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2429419,00.asp
