Sure! Take A Look At My Junk!

I haven't flown since July, but have been giving my next trip considerable thought in the wake of the new Body Scans we are now being subjected to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJC-FuOSZ4
(Sorry. You'll have to copy and paste to view this. Can't get the link option to work.)

Having just had my annual mammogram and my first ever bone density scan, I figure I've endured enough radiation this month so I'm grateful I don't have to fly in the immediate future.
But my husband flies often for business and one of my daughters will be boarding a plane in a couple of weeks.
I do hope they'll give some consideration to which security procedure they'll find least objectionable.
The Body Scan, a virtual strip search, or the new enhanced "pat down," which guarantees some random TSA agent a quick feel of a passenger's breasts, groin and butt crack.

Airline pilots have been advised to "opt out" of the scanners due to the unknown long term effects of this "perfectly safe" radiation - prudent when one considers the exposure pilots, and flight attendants for that matter, must endure just to go to work.
But what's the average traveler to do?
Of course we want to feel safe and secure boarding our next flight but are these enhanced security screenings worth it?
It's one thing to spread your legs in the privacy of the doctor's office but an altogether different experience in the crowded security area of a bustling airport.

And what about the disabled, elderly or small children?
Haven't we all taught our young children to never allow a stranger to touch them, especially their "private parts?"
How do parents now handle this dilemma?
Blast them with radiation or let some stranger touch them where we've always said they should not?
And I know of more than one eighty-something who would rather drive 3000 miles than submit themselves to a scan or a pat down. Is this what we want? Thousands of Octogenarians driving cross country to the granddaughter's wedding?
Wanna bet all this enhanced security will be nothing more than a dare for some to see if they can beat the system?
We'll be hearing lots more about it.
But as for me...
I'm a nearly 60 year old post menopausal mother of three. The excess stuff I'm packing is not explosive, I swear!
One tends to lose all sense of modesty after giving birth in a crowded room with cameras.
In my younger days I'd hop naked into a hot tub and I've mooned fellow rafters on a river trip.
I even went skinny dipping recently, although it was dark and at our age we now call it "Chunky Dunking."
You want to scan this broken down old body TSA?
Sure. Go ahead. Take a look.
Just don't be touching my junk!