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Oct. 31st, 2002 07:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaA start-up company is offering nude air travel, with caveats: you have to be dressed until the plane takes off and then put your clothes back on before landing.
But somehow the whole idea reminds me of a vision I had about six months ago, when flying on one of my innumerable plane trips since the 9/11 disaster. It occurred to me that security checks had become so invasive that I began to expect travelers to be forced to disrobe before being allowed to reach the departure gates. And then I saw a ghastly picture of a long line of naked people shuffling off to theshowers xray machines, and then entering a long narrow empty tube of aluminum that reminded me of a boxcar.
Travel is a right, not a privilege. We should not have to sacrifice other basic rights in order to engage in it.
But somehow the whole idea reminds me of a vision I had about six months ago, when flying on one of my innumerable plane trips since the 9/11 disaster. It occurred to me that security checks had become so invasive that I began to expect travelers to be forced to disrobe before being allowed to reach the departure gates. And then I saw a ghastly picture of a long line of naked people shuffling off to the
Travel is a right, not a privilege. We should not have to sacrifice other basic rights in order to engage in it.
