'Flying Pasties' claim to hide your nakedness from airport scanners

A Las Vegas company has launched a product it claims can preserve a passenger's modesty from controversial full-body airport scanners. The orange rubber stickers – branded “Flying Pasties” - are designed to be placed inside or on top of a traveller’s underwear and obscure their private parts.

The company’s website features a virtually nude woman wearing the stickers but does not provide any evidence to show the product actually works. In reality in any case, the so-called “naked” scanners just show a blurry outline of the body and not a full nude image.



The company recommends travellers remove the stickers if questioned about them by airport officials. The stickers are available for about $US15 each.

The company has been criticised on travel blogs such as Jaunted and financial blog Consumerist for being ineffective and capitalising on the fears of passengers subjected to the new airport scanners. The Jaunted website says: "They sound like regular old stickers with skin-safe adhesive, and how are scanners that can see through thick leather wallets going to be fooled by these?"



The Consumerist website says: "Not only do these stickers appear to not have any sort of technology that would prevent the scanners from seeing your bits, the full-body scanners only show the general outline of your body anyway. That means that you've slapped these expensive stickers on your body for no purpose whatsoever."

The company has acknowledged the product is controversial. “Some segments of society will undoubtedly condemn Flying Pasties for selling this product,” the website states. The product does not protect travellers from radiation.