TSA Full Body Scanners Create New Industry

By Ann Hunter on November 10, 2010

Under the leadership of Obama administration official Janet Napolitano, the Transportation Security Administration has taken a turn for the bizarre and some say deviant with their new security protocols.

In addition to the Full Body Scanners, which some have branded as “Strip Search Machines,” the TSA has adopted a new, enhanced pat-down procedure that includes a mandatory, manual inspection of traveler’s breasts and genitalia in the event the traveler opts out of the full body scan, or sets off a metal detector.

Travelers, including pilots and attendant unions are up in arms over the new intrusive procedures.

One company has taken advantage of the new policies, and has rushed to the market, Flying Pasties. Wearers of the product could maintain a sliver of personal privacy while avoiding the full-on government groping offered by the TSA.

The “pasties” are privacy-protecting reusable cards that slip in and under garments. The pasties (that don’t really stick to anything) are formed to cover women’s breasts and the genitalia of both sexes.

While the Flying Pasties are printed with humorous graphics and phrases, they purportedly protect against Millimeter Wave Scanners – one form of the full body scanners.

A second generation of the product is in production according to the maker.