Originally Posted by
essxjay
I find the assertion in that last paragraph about pax preference rather surprising.
You'll recall that, according to the TSA, there were only a "few" complaints from women being groped three short years ago.
Somehow methinks that if pax are overwhelmingly choosing the backscatter, the TSA would be shouting it from the mountain tops and would not be introducing a new, allegedly less invasive, scanner.