PJ Vogt

These days, you see something like this pretty much every two weeks if you visit the subreddit r slash big dick problems.

On this subreddit, the TSA body scanner issue comes up constantly.

One post goes, body scanners.

No, it's been asked a lot, but need tucking techniques.

Another, every fucking time with the TSA.

A third, TSA agent said he would find what's in my pocket after my second trip to the body scan.

I feel like I need to point out that on big dick problems, there's much more discussion of the joys of having a large package than of the sorrows, but the TSA problem is an exception.

The men here do find it embarrassing.

They're often offering each other tips about how one might get around it, theories as to why it might be happening.

Over on r slash TSA, the TSA is subreddit, an anonymous Redditor explains confidently what's going on here, why America's Transportation Security Administration is targeting these men.

"...so the body scanner scans you, compared to what's expected, then reports any anomaly.

So if you have a larger-than-average body part, it'll come back as deviation from expected, which is essentially the average of population, so you'll get further examined.

And yes, a large flaccid penis will come back as deviation.

Other body parts will do too, but like other body parts have wider range of expected spectrum.

Penises do not."

As a longtime appreciator of language on the internet, I find this comment to be a pitch-perfect distillation of internet expert voice.

The person has no evidence, cites no sources, and yet they are confident and they speak in the approximate language of expertise.

For all the bullshitting AIs do, I think they learned it from us.

I found other theories on these forums.

Someone wrote, my armpits always set off the TSA machine.