Buttons, I was in Phoenix and had already paid for a plane ticket home to the MS Gulf Coast, almost 1600 miles away. It was neither practical nor timely do that--for most anyone--as you should know.
Ok, then you weighed the risk of sexual assault against inconvenience. I have never, and will never, put myself in that situation.
If enough people refused to submit, if only by complete avoidance of air travel, the TSA would vanish. Hurt them in THEIR pockets.