Top Comments: Readers Debate Booth Babes and Zucks Message Fee

This Picture Shows Everything Wrong With 'Booth Babes' at CES

A photo taken by Mashable reporter Emily Price exposed several scantily clad and colorfully painted "Booth Babes" at this year's International CES. Our readers weighed in on whether this is a clever marketing ploy, or an act of misogyny. Lorin Steel suggested that Mashable was equally at fault for posting the shocking image. While our intention was to discourage similar displays at future tech shows, her criticism does not go unacknowledged.

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Semi-naked CES "Booth Babes," the status of CDs in todays digital world, a hefty fee to message Mark Zuckerberg, and Google's decision to make the Google Maps app unavailable to Windows users were all hotly contested topics. We've pulled together our favorite comments of the week to show off the best conversations and the biggest debates.

A California-based hard drive company chose to include colorfully painted, topless women in its 2013 CES presentation, incurring tons of responses via social media. Some commenters voiced support and others were vehemently against the display. Our readers hotly debated the ethics of "booth babes" at trade shows and in advertising in general.

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