OK, folks, I just drew up the following logic:

- I will not submit to a scope-or-grope, nor do I intend to break any laws or wind up in custody, court, or even having to lawyer up.

- If I arrived at an airport and got "selected" for scope-or-grope, my preferred method would be to turn around, return to ticketing, and ask for my luggage back, fully understanding that I'd lose the ticket price. Then go to the nearest bus station and make my way back home.

- Once a TSO selects you for scope-or-grope, you are legally bound to choose one or the other; it's illegal to refuse and turn around.

- Since 100% of my air travel is personal, I tend to buy my tickets months in advance, therefore, whatever this forum says about Nude-O-Scopes might be null and void by the time I actually arrive at the airport.

Conclusion: flying in the USA makes you vulnerable to being forced, by law, to select a scope-or-grope. Therefore, I'm done flying in the USA.

In the near future, I was planning to fly to EYW in July and MHT in August. These are both small-ish airports, as is my home TLH. But that's no guarantee that the Nude-O-Scopes won't be waiting for me when I show up.