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Comment by ViktorRay | Hacker News Reader

It’s interesting one sees so many cases of intelligence services using female agents to target men in this way.

Why doesn’t it happen the other way around as much? Why don’t you see intelligence services using male agents to target powerful women in a similar way as much?

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Almost all the CEOs of top companies by marketcap are straight men. But even if that wasn't the case I think men and women are wired differently when it comes to pursuing after sex so your strategy would have to be different.

The audience who pays for porn is almost exclusively male for example. Male porn stars usually cater to a gay male audience even though straight women outnumber gay men by a huge margin.

If you look at literotica however, it flips and it's more of a female audience.

I mean, one reason for why we don't hear about male agents targeting powerful women is the sad fact that there aren't that many powerful women around, when compared to powerful men.

Patriarchal social structure makes this sort of an attack more common against men than women.

if you google it you will see its not true other than men holding the majority of positions of power

You just don't hear it as often because there are far fewer females in such positions. But they try to go for all tiers of power and use honeypots of both sexes. It's well documented if you do a basic google search, look up Romeo Project, KGB swallows and ravens concept. Male honeypotters are under-representation in mainstream culture due to the sexist notion that only men can be seduced by sex and women somehow do not.

Which woman do you think would make a valuable target?

Any national politician or major CEO.

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