The Uses of Sexual Humiliation

Naomi Wolf has written a terrific article in The Guardian that sums up the truly scary Florence ruling and all its implications:

The political use of forced nudity by anti-democratic regimes is long established. Forcing people to undress is the first step in breaking down their sense of individuality and dignity and reinforcing their powerlessness....

I interviewed the equivalent of TSA workers in Britain and found that the genital groping that is obligatory in the US is illegal in Britain. I believe that the genital groping policy in America, too, is designed to psychologically habituate US citizens to a condition in which they are demeaned and sexually intruded upon by the state--at any moment.

I am so grateful for Wolf's article. More people need to be saying things like this.