Originally Posted by
tfar
Wait. I don't get that. In my logic, if you are cool enough to go topless and you don't fear images getting out, you should be rather pro scanner or at least not against it so much.
Obviously, I posted the question because women supposedly have a higher sense of privacy in regards to what they show or what is seen. So I wondered whether that will have a bearing on your reaction towards the WBI scanners. As l'etoile said, general observations can go to the Security forum. Links are there already.
Keep it coming. I am keen to hear more.
Till
I think I've not explained myself that well.
I do go topless on beaches. But the thing with going topless is that you are not doing it to titilate (excuse the pun

), you don't particularly want to be ogled at - you do it because it prevents nasty strap marks, and its the easiest way of doing that. When I've done it, >50% of the women on the beach are also topless, and no-one really bats an eyelid at it. In fact, if I felt i was being leered at and ogled at while on the beach, topless, I'd probably cover up again. While I don't mind being semi-naked in public, I do object to some reactions that some guys might have as a result, particularly when those reactions make me uncomfortable. There's a line between a glance of admiration and being watched with their tongue hanging out, knowing that the man in question is imagining you doing all kinds of things which you probably wouldn't even want to think about with him.
And as such, if you could guarantee the professionalism of all people monitoring the scanner, then I wouldn't have a problem. But sadly, I think that's impossible and you will get some jerks (for want of a better word) who will use the system for their own enjoyment or who will chose to make personal comments about those they see passing through their screens. Now, I can accept even that upto a certain point because if I don't know it's happening, then it's like it didn't happen. But the moment any passengers privacy is breached and any image makes its way to the internet for others to look at and 'enjoy' (or even to mock, they don't have to images of beautiful bodies - people with deformities or birth defects?) - that's the point at which I say, 'NO!'.
And since I think there's no guarantee that something like that will never happen - I'm more against it than I am for it.
Hope that explains a bit better!