Honestly I don't think I could go though one of those scanners and not feel really shy about it. If I see its a woman checking the scans then I'm really going to melt in that thing.Luckily I'm not going to be flying anytime soon!
Many of the public do not get to see those scans as they can show pretty much everything. THe images are blurred to be seen on the national news. I have seen the real scan pictures and you can see a whole lot. If a person on the other side is of the opposite sex they could easily get turned on. While it is not a normal picture like you wold see on a camera or in a magazine it does not leave much to the imagination.
Hidden government laser scanners will end privacy:
Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. Ref. Source 7
Government quietly replacing some body scanners
The federal government is quietly removing full-body X-ray scanners from seven major airports and replacing them with a different type of machine that produces a cartoon-like outline instead of the naked images that have been compared to a virtual strip search.
Source: Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines
Let's talk about statistics: how many terrorist attacks did the US suffer in the last 500 years? Answer: only one. Big, sensational and absolutely tragic. But still only one. Let's compare it with natural disasters: the ratio is maybe 100 to 1, probably more. Nobody would allow federal agents to sleep in their bed or open their fridge even if that would help someway to prevent a hurricane. So why somebody should allow them to check the dimension of our penis just in case of a second terrorist attack? In my opinion, history replicates itself: "Duck and cover, duck and cover!". A terrified population is easy to control and becomes more forgiving about scandals and open violations of human rights.
Edited: Bruconero on 31st Oct, 2012 - 6:09am
Me too, whenever possible. But you can't travel more than a couple of thousands km with a car or a ship unless you are always on holydays. Think of that New Zealand tourist: traveled half the globe just to be forced to embark on a plain heading back home. Is also a boomerang for tourism.