Secrets of the Booth Babe Biz

Here's a Booth Babe fact: "Models tend to average $20 to $25 an hour working a show", that's a show like E3 or ComicCon. So says Yvonna Lynn who leads the Charisma+2 Booth Babe agency, many of whose ladies will feature in the forthcoming Playboy Gamers issue.

Interviewed recently, Lynn points out that it's not just about the posing and making convention visitors avoid concentrating on the duff games:

"The main idea is to help these guys and girls get their foot into the door in an industry they normally would not have access to.

"That's especially true with the ladies, because this is such a hard industry for women to break into." To get a foot in the industry, Lynn encourages her wards to network while working a show.

So, what's the qualification for Booth Babery? "I ask them to tell me what their favourite games are.

"They don't have to be good. They just have to know it and have a passion for it."

But what of the sexist and degrogatory term, Booth Babe that we've kept using all the way through this piece? "I love being a booth babe!", says Lynn. "This is a marriage of everything I've been. Growing up, I was a tomboy, but I was also sort of girly."

At $25 an hour for networking opportunities among the video game executiveship, you can't blame her.

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