The honey trap theory is an excuse for protecting men's interests in a male-dominated society by degrading women. In Japan, society is immature in that it lacks fundamental discussion on how to protect victims of sexual violence and hold aggressors responsible.

That's not the correct use of Honey trap that I am familiar with.

maybeperhapsyesToday  08:25 am JST

That's not the correct use of Honey trap that I am familiar with.

It is however the way I've heard the term used in Japan. Basically, if a woman wants to be alone with a man it is taken to be a de facto consent to sexual content, and if he later tries to force sexual content on her, she gets labelled a honey trap if she doesn't agree.

I always thought honey trap had political connotations.

Obviously a honey trap has many uses, according to the quotation above and the previous posters. To add one more, international spying.

The allegation here is that some people are suggesting that the woman in each case was calculating and manipulative, using her attraction in order to gain something else. This allegation immediately casts a shadow over a woman's credibility, regardless of any proof offered or not.

The bears don't get it either. They do get the bee stings however, afterwards.

Yeah, I've only ever known a honey trap as a woman who snares a man in with her sexuality (the honey), and then uses her close position to do something against his best interests (the trap).

I think the speaker is trying to say that victims of sexual assault and harassment are attacked twice - once by the attacker, and again by those who immediately accuse them of lying, and of dissembling, who immediately try to make out that the attacker is the victim, despite statistics to the contrary, thus railroading the ongoing debate about why sexual assault and harassment has been allowed to continue for so long, and why this is the only kind of crime where the accuser is the one who is immediately doubted, not the accused.

When else is "I didn't do it" immediately believed by the masses and the press, the accuser's case argued so swiftly? Railroading goes to prevent this kind of discussion.

It’s hardly just a theory. According to Vanity Fair, female spies in WW2 who used the honey trap to get information from a he Nazis were “badass.”

Women know how to use their “assets” and have possessed this knowledge ever since Eve convinced Adam to choose a more sophisticated lifestyle.

I know that the real victims of male violence generally have a hard time getting justice, but let’s not believe blanket statements like the quote above, that says female sexual con-artists don’t exist.

In Japan, society is immature in that it lacks fundamental discussion on how to protect victims of sexual violence and hold aggressors responsible.

Can't argue with this.

On paper, Japan has some of the lowest rates of rape in the world, but it is believed to be massively under reported. Women's rights in Japan are far, far behind the rest of the world, let alone the rest of the developed world. The #MeToo movement never took off in Japan, and unfortunately never will.