The Sex Scandal Of Craigslist, Women Are Selling Positive Pregnancy Tests To The Highest Bidder
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Plenty of expecting moms hoping to cash in on their condition by selling positive pregnancy tests to anyone, who is willing to pay up.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER (1): If it is a prank, it would be hysterical. But, it could be really cold hearted and mean.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Tricking a man into marrying them or at the very least trying to keep a partner in a relationship he no longer wants any part of.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER (2): I think that would be a level of blackmail.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER (3): That is playing with people`s emotions. That is real life situation. You do not mess with stuff like that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Cons are no good and never results in anything positive.</s>PINSKY: I am back with Sam. Women buying positive pregnancy tests online in order to, I guess trick their boyfriends in staying with them, right?</s>SCHACHER: It does not get that much more -- or it does not get more manipulative than that.</s>PINSKY: Than that.</s>SCHACHER: Yes.</s>PINSKY: One of my guests did not think -- well, I guess somebody on the panel did not think there was anything wrong with this. You and I disagreed. But have a look.</s>PINSKY: And, Wendy, I am going to you first, because the rest of us are shaking our head. And I heard you think this is an OK idea.</s>SCHACHER: What?</s>WENDY WALSH, PH.D., PSYCHOLOGIST: I do not say OK, but I want to say this. Are men complaining about being deceived after they pretend that they wanted to be our boyfriends and husbands just to extract sex from us; after they deceive women by buying fake diamond rings. Why is this so different? Listen, men are good at extracting sex from women. Women have been good, if they are good, at extracting resources from men. So, this is the dark side of the mating game. I am not judging it. I am just saying it exists. And, now, women have a prop to go with their words. That is all I am saying.</s>ANAHITA SEDAGHATFAR, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I am judging it, Dr. Drew.</s>SCHACHER: I will judge it. I am, too, Anahita.</s>PINSKY: Anahita, I imagine there is some liability in all of this as well.</s>SEDAGHATFAR: Well, first let me say, how desperate does a woman have to be to engage in this type of behavior, to trap a guy into being with them. I mean, it is absolutely disgusting. Now, legally speaking, it is not a crime for the women that are selling these fake pregnancy tests or I should say positive pregnancy tests. But, it is a crime for those women that are using these pregnancy tests to defraud somebody out of money. Like if they are going to a boyfriend to try to get money for an abortion, or for some child support payments or even going to the state, to try to get --</s>PINSKY: Or a marriage, what about a marriage? What about a relationship? What about keeping them in a relationship they might not want to be in?</s>SCHACHER: Right.</s>SEDAGHATFAR: Right. But ,that is what I am saying --</s>WALSH: But, wait a minute, Anahita.</s>SEDAGHATFAR: -- like how in the world do they think they are going to get away with this --</s>WALSH: Anahita --</s>SEDAGHATFAR: Like At some point, is not the guy going to wake up and say, "Wait a minute, you have no belly. You are not throwing up in the morning."</s>PINSKY: Well, in the meantime, they will get pregnant.</s>WALSH: Well, she is going to have a miscarriage.</s>SCHACHER: They actually --</s>SEDAGHATFAR: You can fake a vomit.</s>SCHACHER: --But, you can purchase the baby bumps. You can purchase fake DNA tests. You can purchase fake ultrasounds. All of that was on there.</s>PINSKY: All right. Crazy.</s>SCHACHER: It is insane.</s>PINSKY: That is crazy.</s>WALSH: But, wait a minute --</s>SCHACHER: Messing with people is lives emotionally and financially.</s>PINSKY: Wait. Listen, there is a really good tweet --</s>WALSH: Wait. But, there is a sexual double standard here.</s>PINSKY: Hold on, everybody. Quiet! Quiet. There is a really interesting tweet next to you that said oldest trick in the book, new twist, which is really my point on social media, generally. Social media is just a new way to get the same old stuff out but it is doing it. It is blowing down boundaries that is making it much more accessible to people.</s>SEDAGHATFAR: That is right.</s>PINSKY: Now, before we go on to Segun, and I want to Segun. Maybe he is going to start spitting fire in a second. I want to show you some of the ads on Craigslist right now. Here they are, put them. sIn Texas, $20. I do not want to know why you want or need it but if you do, I will make it happen. I am pregnant, so it will be legit. Will mail to any list or meet if nearby, will not be available much longer. I guess there is a delivery date come.</s>SCHACHER: Wow.</s>PINSKY: So, Segun, have at it. Segun, what is say you?</s>SEGUN ODUOLOWU, SOCIAL COMMENTATOR: Well, first of all, if we thought V. Stiviano was bad like these women win gold in the skank Olympics. And, I just have to ask you, Dr. Wendy, who hurt you, dear? Because you always come on and you say that it is always tit for tat, and like men do this to get by on women, and it is only fair. But, there are some things that are just dead wrong, and faking a pregnancy, selling urine, have we come to that? Is it so bad that we are now selling urine on Craigslist to trick a man into thinking you are pregnant to keep a man in a relationship. Wow.</s>WALSH: But men trick women all the time. I will tell you --</s>ODUOLOWU: Does it make it right?</s>WALSH: I am not saying anything is right or wrong. I am just saying there is a dark side to the mating game. I am not saying it is good or bad.</s>ODUOLOWU: No, no, no, but you said you are not going to judge.</s>WALSH: And, you know what men do when they trick a woman and extract sex from her? They can leave her with an STD, an 18-year case of pregnanthood, and a pregnant life --</s>SEDAGHATFAR: Use condoms.</s>WALSH: -- and a broken heart.</s>PINSKY: Hold it, hold it. Hold it.</s>ODUOLOWU: Breathe, Wendy, breathe.</s>PINSKY: I just want to say, in terms of being surprised about urine being purchased online, believe me, my addicts have been doing that a long time. They have a whole market of purchasing clean urines and warm urines and all kinds of stuff to use in their whizzinators and things.</s>SCHACHER: Whizzinators. You used that term.</s>PINSKY: Look it up if you want to know what it is. I am not going to go any further with it tonight. But I do think that although Wendy is right, it is built on something in our biology in terms of males extracting sex, women extracting resources. I refer you to some of the evolutionary psychologists who have worked that out quite nicely, but I still think this is a new low. This is a new low - -</s>ODUOLOWU: Thank you, Dr. Drew.</s>PINSKY: -- where we are taken this and that is where social media is somewhat different. And, that it is, again, blowing down boundaries and taking us to extremes. Same story, different outcome.</s>PINSKY: Next up, a new study says that 50-year-old men want women barely out of their teens. And, later, one university is under fire for acquiring students to fill up a survey about their sexual history. Back after this.