Thirst traps are a fine art. You have to find the spot between cute and kinky, sweet and saucy, innocent and ‘capable of ruining your day and, potentially, the next six to eight months of your life’. As anyone currently trying to navigate BeReal will attest, it’s not enough to simply open your front cam and hope for the best.
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If thirst traps were an Olympic sport, Megan Barton-Hanson would be the world champion. A master of suggestion and a professional horndog, Megan knows her way around a sexy photo. Now, you can too. In this week’s sex and relationships column for VICE, she shares her tips for taking a photo that will guarantee you the one thing we all log on to receive: attention. Glorious attention! You can read her previous column (about romantic getaways) here.I’m an attention whore as it is, but when I drop a thirst trap I want attention from people who don’t even want to be interested. I want a middle-aged woman who’s minding her own business to see it and be like, ‘Wow, she's cute, I’d bang her!’ A thirst trap should be able to turn people’s sexual orientation, change the course of someone’s day… you want anyone and everyone to think you’re hot.First thing’s first, you need to identify your target audience and what you’re trying to say. If you definitely want dick, then you need to come in strong. Get the red and black underwear out, maybe leave a few props artfully placed in the background. Like, ‘Oops! I didn’t realise I’d left my vibrator out, silly me. I guess that’s just the sexual animal I am…’ If you're going for a more understated grid post then wear a cute outfit, but get the bad boys out, or make a suggestive face, or sneak in something to let people know you’re a bit freaky. ‘Look how innocent I am in my Levis shorts and harness top’ – that sort of thing. You want to be subtle and suggestive, rather than filthy and tacky – save that for the DMs, where you can really turn the slut dial up to 10.
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