Airport 'puffer' machines?

[Fearnest]

You might even try turning your head and coughing during the search

Now THAT one I'll give a try the next time!

[McClef]

if anything happened you'd be risking an indecent exposure charge, it might be a good idea not to go regimental

By the same logic one should never be regimental when it's windy!

But technically wouldn't the airport be responsible for causing said exposure?

Any theoretical exposure should surely be treated as accidental and from what others have written there is enough time to take preventive action. As I already have to fly sans pin and sgean I'm damned if I'm going to compromise for the few seconds it would take to pass through. I'm prepared to take the risk!

These machines might currently be limited to some US airports as I haven't encountered them in Europe but then again things have a habit of spreading - for the first time ever in Europe I had to take my shoes off and pass them through the scanner at Edinburgh Airport a couple of weeks ago.

There is already a machine capable of scanning liquids but I don't expect they will rush to install those...