Jeffrey Goldberg Has a Name for His Balls

Photo: Patrick McMullan

In his hilarious piece testing out the TSA's new pat-down procedures, Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg gives us a little TMI. "We have to search up your thighs and between your legs until we meet resistance," the security officer tells him when he opts for the physical pat-down over a trip through the notorious back-scatter imager.

"Resistance?" I asked.

"Your testicles," he explained.


He answered, "Like 'The Situation,' that guy from `Jersey Shore?'"


We suppose, though, that like the pat-down procedures themselves, this anecdote reveals both too much and not enough. If that's what he calls his balls, what does the award-winning writer call his actual schlong?

For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance [Atlantic]