A scene from this year's CES. The picture was taken early in the morning.
(Credit: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
A tech conference without booth babes is like Wimbledon without strawberries and snobbery. Or Chicago without bad baseball and corrupt politics.
Please imagine, then, how stunned at least some attendees at the ChinaJoy 2012 gaming expo in Shanghai this past week must have been to discover that they were assuredly in China, but had been deprived of their greatest joy.
Yes, the booths were not adorned by naked female flesh.
As the Register undresses it, organizers decided that they just couldn't go home at night knowing that they had corrupted even one more young mind with displays of female temptation.
Not only did they ban bikinis, but also backless clothing and other items of couture that cause some attendees to salivate.
Failure to observe this strict dress code apparently would result in birching by a leather-clad woman in long, black boots. No, wait. Actually, it would result in fines or suspensions.
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