Meet the Women and Men Who Set Honey Traps, and Their Victims

The very concept is so enticing that governments and their agents cannot resist employing women and men as, in effect, sex workers. Schlesinger’s book even deals with ‘cyber honey traps.’

Alexey Danichev, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP
Vladimir Putin on December 27, 2022. Alexey Danichev, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP

‘Honey Trapped: Sex, Betrayal and Weaponized Love’
By Henry R. Schlesinger
The History Press, 457 pages

“And bathed her body with water, and anointed herself with precious ointment and combed her hair and put on a tiara, and arrayed herself in her gayest apparel, which she used to wear while her husband Manasseh was living. And she put sandals on her feet, and put on her anklets and bracelets and rings, and her earrings and all her ornaments and made herself very beautiful to entice the eyes of all men who might see her.”

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