would you then decide that dressing young women in hardly anything for the enjoyment/purchasing power of young men (and women, too - don't forget the ever-growing numbers of young female gamers) is disturbing? Don't tell me Broadsheet's suddenly got more concerns about violent content (the effects of which are as debatable as whether booth babes boost sales) than the impressions that commercial sexual display might leave on girls' self-image.

I was sickened to read this article about E3 fining game companies who use sex to promote their violent games. Sex is the act of creation, and violence is the act of destruction. However, we encourage our media to depict violence in a myriad of ways and discourage any depiction of sex or even sexiness. It is perhaps the most obvious example of the hypocracy embodied in the "culture of life" that you hear so much about. Sex is good "for the children" and in fact it is the root cause of children. Sex is fun, and promotes bonding between individuals. Violence destroys families. Violence ends life. Violence is the act of unleashing evil onto the world.

Unfortunately, sex is scary to the impotent old men of the ruling class, and even scarier to the frigid old women who rule us. They can't have sex, and so they don't want anybody to get some. At the same time, they are old and therefore death is a very real and present part of their lives. Death is so real to them that they want to share it with the rest of us.

If the forces of Satan exist on this earth, they are anti-sex and pro-violence.

It would be cool if this were some kind of grass-roots protest thing to make us think about sexuality, gaming, free speech, etc. In fact, the booth-babe 'protesters' are just advertising an E3 afterparty:

"Niki and her co-protester, Roisin Taylor, were not spontaneous protesters, but were actually hired by intellivisiongear.com to promote their after E3 party. The signs were a joint idea between them and their company to help attract attention."

from

http://www.gamesfirst.com/?id=1312#imageGallery

I'm not exactly sure how I feel about booth-babes being made fun of for profit...