Originally Posted by HSVTSO Dean

We're specifically directed to not do that.

The absolute first step of the Standard Pat-Down, no matter what, is to get a fresh pair of gloves.

(Note that this is the Standard Pat-Down - not the Targeted Standard Pat-Down. For the purposes of how procedures operate, they're two entirely different things.)

We're specifically directed to demonstrate the motions of the pat-down (specifically the back of the hands across the buttocks; back of the hands down either side of the zipper on the front of the trousers; and the inside of the leg where one hand starts on the hip and the other on the thigh, and the raising of the hand until it meets body resistance -- or, raising of the hand along the gracillus until it comes into contact with the epidermal layer over the pubic bone, if you prefer) in the air, rather than on our own person, so that the gloves remain uncontaminated. The idea is that, when the ETD test is performed, the only thing that the gloves could have on them is from the passenger.