Originally Posted by chollie

Cop frisks (true 'patdowns') are on TV every night. Ask an LE how many weapons (and what kind) they've missed because they didn't swipe a suspect's genitals 3 times in each direction with open palms.

Events in DEN proved that no one - other pax or fellow TSOs - gets upset or thinks there's anything unusual when a male TSO open-palms a male pax's genitals in public. A TSO did it repeatedly and no one - not even another TSO - questioned it.