Young women and old dudes. It’s a fact of life and not something I lose sleep over. No matter how curious a relationship looks from the outside, that relationship would not exist without its reasons. I’m simplifying here, but my point is that you never know what’s really going on. You see a pregnant girl in the street and you automatically assume that, well, she’s pregnant, right? Not so in Isarn, where there is a disturbing trend of girls inducing phony pregnancies by injecting their stomachs with chemicals.

A number of students have been using this method of swelling up their bellies in order to fool their sugar daddies into giving them money for abortions. It’s all as ingenious as it is horrific. Apparently some of the gigs of wealthy businessmen and politicians are unhappy with the measly sums of money they are given as pocket money.

There are, allegedly, certain clinics in some of the northern provinces that carry out the procedure. You can guess how quick the sugar daddies want the problem to disappear.

What do people think? Is it so despicable that you can’t bring yourself to imagine such as act, or are these crafty girls just looking for a quick break? Feigning pregnancy is certainly nothing new, but actually having an injection to give the appearance of carrying a little one is something else entirely.

But whose really to blame? An Ubon Rachathani student said that these kids have seen it all before on soap operas. If it can work on TV, it can work in real life – just like every time someone falls over in the real world there’s a sound guy on hand with the relevant sound effect. We should have known.

Kom Chad Luek ran this story last week. Take it for what it’s worth.