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Someone is "thirsty" for sex. A woman (or a broad approximation there of) exploits that thirst, hence "trap".

The "woman" is the thirst trap. Woman is in quotes, because it's almost always not a woman, but a bot, or one of many accounts run by scammers.

Good-looking person, usually dressed and/or posing provocatively. Often includes engagement-bait-type caption.

A sexually suggestive picture

He's not???

Also the "if you had to pick one" ones. Like it's a public forum and those are real people. Like I get the whole fantasy and thinking about which one you are most attracted to, but any kind of bonding with others around porn (that isn't just having sex while watching porn) just seems pathetic to me.

Sometimes, I think it’s like people yelling at someone in a horror movie “he’s right behind you!”

It prompts real feelings and reactions and they just have to let them out.

Fine, but self-awareness comes in stages. Learning to recognize that others are scamming them is an easier step than recognizing that they're scummy.

Eh, sorry, but that's a valid instinct and interest. Yep, someone fully realized as a person and with good social surroundings won't likely want that. Plenty of people are unfortunately not.

Now when you're not getting any hints or do have good social surroundings yet go for such a bait, you are not very wise and might not be a good person.

But - sometimes English-speaking Web seems kinda puritan still.

If you are going to answer that last part with observation that such comments are cringe and unlikely to attract another person in a non-puritan setting as well, I am aware of that. Clumsiness exists, stupidity exists, various wounds exist. Have some humanity.

Yes, boomers, the people that have saddled the rest of us with existential crises are pieces of shit

Yeah, people really need to stop pretending AI slop still produce wonky hands and smeared background. Yes, you will still find those, but you can't rely on that anymore. Even videos when well made are hard to tell if it's AI or not.

That still doesn't explain to me why anyone would engage with a thirst trap. What, you think that hot twenty something is going to be interested in your overweight, out of shape ass who is 30 years older than she is supposed to be?

What is that in Megadeths? 🤔

How many millihelens to a thirst trap?

As the father of a tween, I am disgusted that I understood this.