Some magazine in the US has labelled it the Scope Or Grope option
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The open hand procedures mandated for America’s totally out of control Transport Security Administration involve manually determining the orientation of the penis and testicles
That is standard in a Customs frisk search for prohibited substances. The difference, of course, is that they must have reasonable grounds for detaining you, unlike the all encompassing TSA stuff. Nor do they do all that many of them. That said, pat downs aren't worth a cent unless you're looking for relatively large objects.
And no, I don't support this level of security in Australia. If you get to this stage you may as well just make everyone to fly in the nude with no luggage. As a female airport worker I would be really uncomfortable about some of the security people here having access to those sorts of images. At least I have the option of staying out of the terminals.