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Old Sep 24, 2010 | 10:51 pm
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Originally Posted by eyecue
Sensative means two things:
1. Personal private area like the groin, the buttocks and in females the breast area.
2. An area that has an injury.

They are asking about the latter and you are speaking about the former.
I think both were being covered. If I have had surgery and have a dressing over a would or if I am a woman wearing a pad or a small child wearing a diaper or someone with a colostomy bag - in all cases, you have to apply enough pressure to be sure "what's there". In the case of the dressing, I may have two choices - remove the dressing so you can handle (and hopefully not contaminate) the dressing and visually inspect my wound (which may be almost anywhere on my body), or subject myself to possibly ruptured stitches or a reopened wound because a TSO is unintentionally heavy-handed or overzealous. I suppose you insist that the small child remove the diaper. I expect that the woman will be made to feel very uncomfortable indeed. I can't even imagine how uncomfortable it will be for someone with a colostomy bag.

So we're talking both personally sensitive areas (private) and injury-sensitive areas.

I understand your requirements; I know everyone on this board does. Unfortunately I'm not getting much reassurance about how you're going to go about handling these requirements. I would like to think that you would handle a passenger the same way you would handle your mother or infant nephew or grandfather or wife or husband or anyone in your family of the same gender. Your replies aren't very reassuring.
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