Office party infidelities

04/07/2008

Most of us look forward to the annual office party – it’s a time to enjoy ourselves and let loose after a hard year of working the 9-5 grind. But while some of us are letting our hair down, others are going a step too far.

One thing, as they say, leads to another and infidelity over the Christmas party season is a becoming a a bit of a problem for many couples. Whether it be lipstick on the collar, or a faint whiff of perfume in the air, suspicions can become rife – which is where honey traps come in.

Business for these attractive men and women is booming. They make as much as £300 a night testing partners – if their victims refuses the advances of the honey trappers, they have officially passed. It seems an ideal way to test your partner.

But with relationships built firmly on trust, it points to an increasing culture of suspicion. If the increase in business honey trappers are seeing suggests anything, it’s that we’re becoming a less trusting society.

But perhaps we’re right to be untrusting when honey trappers claim 80-90 percent of men take the bait almost immediately - and women, they say, are almost as bad.