When it comes to airport security, there are two choices for the traveler. You can choose to go through the naked scanner and risk having pictures of your junk leaked online, or you can choose to opt out and go through the pat-down line and have a TSA worker touch your junk directly. Businessman Jeff Buske might have a happy solution: a pair of underwear with a privacy-protecting, genital-obscuring insert full of powdered metal designed to protect wearer modestly from airport scanners.
The underwear, from Las Vegas-based Rocky Flats Gear, use powdered metal as to prevent the inserts from being too bulky or uncomfortable. The inserts themselves are supposedly very thin and comfortable to wear. The male version is shaped like a fig leaf while the female version is shaped like a pair of clasped hands. The metal is a mix of tungsten and other metals that will not set off metal detectors.
It’d be a great idea if it would allow you to pass unmolested through the scanners, but I have my doubts. Seeing something suspicious like that would undoubtedly lead you to be pulled and forced into the grope line for further screening.
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