If you're booking a flight in the U.S. this holiday season, make sure you ask for full-release, because the airport security crew is now authorized to fondle your Jimmy. Once considered private parts, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has given clearance to airport screeners to pat down breasts, genital regions and asses with their own $10-an-hour hands.

Once a frequent flyer, 27-year-old Sommer Gentry has had male screeners at Boston's Logan International attempt to feel her up, while a woman at the Washington International slammed a metal detector aggressively between Gentry's legs in search of those ballistic missiles terrorists hide in their vaginas.

"How can I feel safe when the TSA is ordering me to let strangers put their hands all over my most intimate places?" Gentry told U.S. News and World Report.

Chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee Rep. John Mica says he knows the searches are "not pleasant," but sees no alternative until better screening technology is perfected. In the meantime, the TSA is getting about a dozen complaints a week.

» Scott Saxon