Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20161114201452/@comment-26116863-20161115044516

Villians pervert good things and make them bad, or otherwise use things which are already either good or bad to their advantage. Love vs. lust. Rumple uses Belle's love to control her. He uses Regina's love (?), to manipulate and control her. EQ and Rumple have both at different times used both lust and love as leverage to get their way.

They use the truth, as EQ recently did, as a weapon to weaken relationships.

They take trust and twist it into blind faith, and mislead those who trust them into being evil themselves.

This is just another tactic in the villian arsonal to manipulate others into doing their bidding. Gold used it on Zelena to get his dagger when she was holding him hostage. Good guys don't usually seduce anyone unless they are short on options, they prefer to find another way if possible. They have standards, and normally don't just do whatever is easiest. Villians do whatever they can to get an edge. They don't care what.

Although, Emma did kind of do just this sort of thing with past-Hook when she time traveled back in the EF. She knew he would have a weakness for her, so she used it to her advantage. She had a good reason for doing it, however. So, you could say that it depends on the intent, although I personally find this sort of tactic to be distastful and demeaning for the character doing it, which is probably why using it is generally reserved for villians.