The extending of "security" searches to include your wallet is just another boost to the power trip that some of these people are on. If they really want to look inside why not just put it through the X-ray machine once more? Your wallet usually contains very personal and priveleged information, credit cards (and their numbers), photos of your family and maybe even things like a doctors prescription. Isn't there legislation in place to protect against the viewing of personal data without your agreement? Or does that not apply where "security" is concerned? If a stranger touched up your genitals in the street you'd be entitled to deck them as spannersatKL suggested. However try that in a "security" post and your feet wouldn't touch the ground as you were escorted off the premises. Episodes like this only add to the humiliating and degrading experience that passing through "security" has become.