Comments on: Alert Me: E.L. James a pseudonym for the Pope(?), ‘used’ ebooks, and sex toys in airports https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/03/04/alert-me-e-l-james-a-pseudonym-for-the-pope-used-ebooks-and-sex-toys-in-airports/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alert-me-e-l-james-a-pseudonym-for-the-pope-used-ebooks-and-sex-toys-in-airports Erotic writing, toys, and a little bit of kink. Come and find out what we’re doing behind the drapes ... Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Madijo @ Fixing Me https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/03/04/alert-me-e-l-james-a-pseudonym-for-the-pope-used-ebooks-and-sex-toys-in-airports/#comment-14927 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:44:48 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4558#comment-14927 I can’t speak for all of Canada, but here in the Maritimes…we are awesome! And we would love to have you come visit.

]]> By: Jane https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/03/04/alert-me-e-l-james-a-pseudonym-for-the-pope-used-ebooks-and-sex-toys-in-airports/#comment-14770 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:44:57 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4558#comment-14770 Wow! Thanks so much for weighing in on this; it’s really interesting to have the alternative perspective. I think carry-on luggage is a little different, because you can more or less expect to be searched in front of others if you have anything electrical in a handbag, briefcase, etc. It’s the examination of sex toys in checked luggage and the way it appears to be handled in some cases (if the above article is accurate), that really disturbs me. Creepy notes on ‘searched’ items? Urgh!

NB: I will have to make sure I visit Canada with my toys in the future, so I can be sure of empathetic and discrete screening officers! :-)

]]> By: Madijo @ Fixing Me https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/03/04/alert-me-e-l-james-a-pseudonym-for-the-pope-used-ebooks-and-sex-toys-in-airports/#comment-14554 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:07:50 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4558#comment-14554 Its funny you mention TSA. I was a screening officer until last year when I got laid off. I live in New Brunswick Canada, so we do not get the same training or have the same…Hmmm attitude? I now for us, when I looked on the xray, sex toys (battery, wires and organic matter) could look like an IED. Saying that, when we searched someones carry on (co-workers and myself included), we did try to be discrete. We were always embarrassed to see something so personal. We usually never even pulled it out of the carry on, and just did a test around it. Is it because we are Maritimers (nick name for people who live in the Maritimes)? Are we are not as sophisticated, not as comfortable with sexuality? I think so, but also, I think we have not lost our ability to empathize with others.

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