By entering a regulated airport, you pretty much agree to be photographed. And those photos are in the public domain. So why wouldn't these pics be any different?

FOIA request for Scarlett Johansson ... anyone?

the birth of a whole new sexual fetish. There's absolutely no doubt that such photos will end up online.

to checking your bag though, huh? You betcha!

... I'm not flying anymore. Air travel is ALREADY the most dehumanizing way to spend a couple hundred of my hard earned dollars. Throwing in a peepshow for the TSA is not going to be a part of any of my future travel plans. If I can't drive there, I guess I just won't go.

...but even then this is a stretch. In my experience the vast majority of TSA agents I've comes across aren't exactly skilled workers. They're glorified mall security guards with a bigger budget, and they very much covet the small scraps of power thrown their way.

There is no way they are not commenting on, making fun of, fantasizing about, or in some way giving undue attention to the naked human forms paraded infront of them. These people, whose professionalism I often call into question, should not be seeing these completely private images of people.

What is the actual benefit of this technology? How many more lives would it save if there were just practical and common sense security measures? I accept having my bags and belongings scanned and inspected just as I will always expect to go through a medical detector. I expect the people manning them to be professional and attentive. What does removing my shoes and sending me through a 3D image scanner that make sure I don't have a plastic knife shoved under my testicles really accomplish? It makes the public feel shamed, embarassed, and harassed into not saying anything for fear of missing their flight.

I think I know of a place where the government can start slashing some budgets.

Invasive is invasive. I once had a $10/hr TSA yokel cup my balls inside my shorts, in public. What difference does it make either way whether they look at some blurry picture of you or fondle your tits in person?

My recommendation would be to implant every traveler with a microchip that can be programmed to explode like in "Escape from New York". Do something wrong, they blow up your brain from the inside. Or just shackle people to their seats.

I don't have any choice whether or not the NSA wants to listen in to my mom giving me recipe advice or my friends complaining about their latest romantic disaster...fine. Great. My life is pretty banal, and I'm not a turrist.

But I REFUSE to go through these scanners. I'll ask for a female TSA agent pat me down (well within one's rights to do so!). I don't care if the agents treat me like dirt as a result. I consider these machines a serious breach of my privacy, and any assertion that it's essential to public safety is laughable. Air travel is ridiculously safe, and I can't help it if the other headless chickens now list their no1 fear as 'being blown up by a turrist on the way to DisneyWorld'.

I can't be the only one skeeved out about having someone look at me naked. There are only two people in the world allowed to see me that intimately- my husband and my obgyn. I don't need some asshole TSA agent ogling my tits.