nude: body scanners

The European Union is currently discussing a new way of security controls on airports: body-scanner.
These scanners would scan a human similar to the way the luggage is scanned -any surgical operation such as breast ablation would be visible.


The Frankfurter Rundschau quotes many different German politicians and explains the positive and negative aspects of this new feature.
The author Volker Schmidt doesn't make a big secret out of his personal opinion.
In the first paragraph of his article he quotes a member of the German liberal party who says that "the pictures are very detailed and equal a virtual striptease." Further he quotes a spokesman of the green party who claims that "the observation vagaries of the EU-Commission are worse than even George Orwell could have imaged.
The author continues to quote only people that do not support this new idea and presents only a few supporting arguments such as higher security and no need of personal contact.
In his commentary he criticizes the operator of the airport in Zurich, Switzerland for supporting a "security method that does not respect the dignity of a human being".
The commentary ends with an explanation why undressing in front of a total stranger gives the airport traveler a feeling of swoon: Even nudists would never undress before a total stranger, especially if they can't see the opponent.

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