This is an old and very common humiliation technique. I have been jailed a number of times for activist related violations such as trespassing.
I am taken to medical isolation (MI)usually as I never cooperate. I never am violent or abusive, but you can get their goat without doing all that.
One time when they were escorting me from intake to MI I had four deputies north, east, south and west of me as I walked. I knew they were in a game playing mood.
They never asked for my clothes, they tripped me and then started undressing me and I went limp and didn't react. I would of given them the street clothes had they asked, but that wasn't part of the game that day.
Needless to say, it takes more then nakedness to bother me. I can see very well how this would bother a woman allot more then a guy anyway.
One thing I am always amused by is how many jailers are fat as hogs. They really need to get more exercise. Most of them would be far more embarrassed to be strip searched then lean little muscular me.
Nah, they were all male. However as I always refuse the jail garb and usually am in the isolation cell with only a rip proof 'suicide blanket,' when I have had a female in charge of monitoring people like me I have given people like that an eye full of me. (Poor bastards.) ;-D
By the way, they always play games like, "you are not going to be able to see the judge unless you dress in jail clothes," (television arraignment there in the jail). But they always get me my pants and shirt to do this as I always call their bluff on that point.
I always push the mattress out the slot in the inner door designed for that too and they always take it. They also have a policy of only giving MI people a small Bible to read, but they always give me a novel or other book.
For some reason, they find what I do to the Bible infuriating and disgusting.
Why Buck, as someone who has entered a closed timber sale, participated in sit down strikes, been arrested as a possible leader at demonstrations and all other nasty, despicable crimes I've committed, I guess I must be. ;-D
However, I never steal, attack, rob, vandalize or do anything that victimizes another for my benefit.
I have a clean police record as far as "common crimes" go. I have been arrested also when someone stole and used my ID.
But I would never act up as I mentioned had had it been over the 'normal' business of common criminality. I would then be in the modus of 'if you do the crime, do the time.'
Activists usually are nothing but a pain in the neck to deal with in jail. Well, EF!ers like me are anyway.
The official slang term for these folks locally is Creeper. We have a bad meth problem in the North West, with ID theft to steal from stores, banks and anywhere people desperate to make money to stay in meth to feed their Jones.
Dale Allen Beaty, one of the Beaty cranster-gangster/burglar/ robber family from Cottage Grove, Oregon used my license to bad ends in the 1980s.
Naturally I do not support nor condone any ID theft. But I would rate what cranster gangsters do to be far more serious then someone using a bogus Social Security number to get a job with.
Any immigrant using ID to steal with and that causes lower credit ratings and heartbreak to the real ID owner is just as odious an individual to me as Dale Allen Beaty is. I am glad he is in prison.
If I knew of a stolen SS number in play by anyone, immigrant or not, I would report it. Someone using my driver's license number like that again, I would want to wring the neck of.
I went to jail twice as alias me, once was for four days one New Year's Day weekend in Tacoma, Washington. I have a good reason to personally not like ID theft.