Originally Posted by
Dovster
Like you, I fly in/out of Italy quite a bit. On my last trip there I wore suspenders which had small metal tabs. I was flying MXP-PRG-TLV and received the patdowns in both Milan and Prague.
They were just as invasive as in the US and the only difference seemed to be that nobody wasted my time by telling me, step by step, what he was about to do.
The Italian patdowns are not as invasive as the touch-the-junk gropes done by the TSA. The TSA rubs against passenger penises and/or scrotums with far greater frequency and official mandate than airport security screeners in Italy or any other developed country in the world (primarily OECD countries).
The US is far more messed up in this area than any country in Europe or the Americas.