Originally Posted by Japhydog
Many rational people, myself amongst them, think that it is perverted to threaten to, and/or carry through with, touching someone else's private body parts without explicit permission from that person.
Your definition of "rational" and apparently differs radically from the accepted defintion observed by academics, society at large and dictionary publishers. That's fine, as long as you're straight-forward about your "deviant" definition (sorry, couldn't resist the pun). With that said, it's pointless to continue a discussion with you about this topic because of your unwillingness to agree to a baseline from which to begin discussion.
Maybe you don't care if your wife/significant other gets touched in this manner. But many of us do.
It always comes back to the personal attack with you people.
For your information, I was in law enforcement for 15 years and what you call "perversion" I can appropriate and legal. I conducted many pat-down searches in my day, on both males and females. Properly conducted, a pat-down search doesn't come close to the type of "perverted" behavior that you claim it is.
And as for my wife, she's conducted pat-down searches of others as well and has, herself, had pat-down searches on her. If she had such radical objections to the searches I haven't heard about it. Beyond that I'll let her speak for herself. You can contact her via my web site (tsa-screeners.com) if you like.
Mark Arsenault
Screeners Central
www.tsa-screeners.com