I will confess, I have never watched an episode of The Bachelor. Perhaps that’s why, when friends described to me the events that took place on the popular ABC dating show earlier this month and the debate that followed, I wondered at the levels of degradation our culture has sunk to over the decades that we believe there’s something to legitimately argue over.
The details, sordid and tawdry, are thus: This season’s man-on-a-romantic-mission, Clayton Echard, had sex with all three women he invited on “fantasy suite” dates to Iceland. He also claimed to be “in love” with each of them. (This is a man who takes the Stephen Stills lyrics “love the one you’re with” far too much to heart.)
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