Full Body Scans at Airports – Will They Show Breasts?
On mine and my now-husband’s way to Las Vegas, at the Cleveland airport, we were subjected to the newest technology in airport security, and we were confused because we had never been through one before. We’re not infrequent travelers, either, so it must have been a fairly new contraption for the Cleveland Hopkins airport to be using, because we had traveled within the past year as well and we didn’t go through one.
What it is, and what you will be seeing at quite a few more airports now after the scare with the Nigerian man who tried to blow up an airplane with explosives that were taped to his body which went unnoticed in the typical metal detector and physical pat down searches, is a lot more of these full body scan devices.
These devices, which look like something straight out of a science fiction movie (albeit, one not that far in the future). They are a circular, clear glass device which you stand in the middle of while a device whirls around you, bouncing radio waves off of you and showing the human scanners what you have that might be hiding under your clothes. And yes, that includes your most intimate curves. If you look at the image one of these produces, if you had jelly rolls and large breasts, well, let’s just say that all those curves would be clearly outlined on the scanner screen for the screener to see.
With some being concerned about privacy infringement, I for one, honestly don’t mind it. Do I like it? No, of course, I don’t like what our society is turning into, which is more and more big brother as these terrorist attacks and the sneaky ways they go about getting dangerous items on board, intensifies, and the governments hand is forced deeper into our personal lives because of it, but if it’s going to potentially save people’s lives, and save a victory for these sick terrorists who want to kill people to prove their points and to make people terrified to do anything, then so be it.
If you feel self conscious about it, know that only the screeners can see your most intimate outlines, and that it really is necessary in this age of terrorism. I know it’s easy to get angry over the constant infringement of our privacy rights, but it is the fault of the extremists who have made this type of things necessary by killing innocent people in 9/11 style attacks, and it’s the only way we have unfortunately to combat it.
