By Erika Icon

YNOT – Transportation Security Administration agents in San Francisco may still be blushing after the terrorism suspect they detained earlier this month turned out to be packing nothing more lethal than a supersized penis.

New Yorker Jonah Falcon, who claims to have the largest penis in the world (nine inches flaccid; 13.5 inches erect), was frisked July 9 by TSA agents at San Francisco International Airport. Agents reported their suspicions were aroused by what appeared to be a “bulging package” hidden in Falcon’s pants. The TSA reps feared Falcon might be carrying some sort of biological threat.

After he was frisked, Falcon, 41, was questioned and his pants were sprinkled with a white powder to test for explosives. He also was subjected to a full-body x-ray scan and a metal detector.

Falcon passed all the screenings and eventually was cleared to board a flight for New York. Later, he told the Huffington Post he found the experience amusing — and educational.

“I’m just gonna wear bike shorts from now on,” Falcon said. “That way, they’ll know. You’d think the San Francisco TSA would have had experience with hung guys before, but I guess not.”

Falcon, who writes for the gaming blog Game Stooge and hosts a New York public-access cable TV show about baseball, is no stranger to attention. In 1999, he gained notoriety when he appeared in the HBO documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed. Rolling Stone ran a feature about Falcon and his monumental member in 2003. During a 2010 appearance on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show during which Falcon bragged about his endowment, show regular Samantha Bee attempted to convince him to enter the adult entertainment industry. Falcon declined, saying such a move would harm his “legitimate acting career.” (He has appeared in un-credited roles and as an extra in a handful of mainstream films and television series.)

Though Hollywood fame appears to elude Falcon, his penis continues to pop up in the public consciousness. It seems likely the TSA, which has declined to comment about the incident, will post Falcon’s image nationwide in order to avoid another embarrassing debacle.

And Falcon may yet find himself immortalized on film: How long can adult studios resist a parody about “the world’s biggest dick?”