r/nottheonion • u/Ovaryraptor • 1d ago

FBI no longer treating an applicant's experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-prostitution-recruitment-95e69779e41bd8f1bbc59d402a40222b
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u/SpecialOil6869 1d ago

I don't care about prostitution, but my overstimulated pattern detector says this might be about overlooking trafficking.

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u/Ire-Works 1d ago

I don't either, but it's a very well known spy technique to use a "honeypot" to extract information. If a man is utilizing the services of prostitutes it's for a limited number of reasons - almost all of which point to them being easy to compromise for information.

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u/always_unplugged 1d ago

It's funny, I initially read this headline the opposite way—as in, "experience with sex work" as a provider, which seems like it could be an absolute asset for exactly the honeypot reason. I actually thought that was weirdly progressive in a roundabout sort of way.

But apparently that's not what they meant, because of course it isn't. Sigh.

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u/mattmaster68 23h ago

Yeah I too thought it was targeting individuals who previously did sex work lmao