'The Bachelorette' Stokes Sex-Shaming Controversy
by EG
Luke Parker, the villain of this season's The Bachelorette, is apparently offended by star Hannah Brown's willingness to get physical with other contestants. Her behavior apparently runs afoul of Parker's Christian values (although his values allowed him to be on the show in the firt place). Hannah isn't having any of it. Read on for details.
On ABC's The Bachelorette, star Hannah Brown's frontrunner is also doubling as this season's villain. Typically, the villain faces off with the fellow contestants but this season Luke Parker — who is referred to as "Luke P." — is also poised for a tense sparring with the Bachelorette about her sexual behavior on the show.
Parker has been an early contender for Brown's final rose ever since the season began in mid-May. And after declaring his love for her in the second episode, he quickly piqued Brown's interest and placed a target on his back. Brown has admitted she has the strongest attraction to Parker of all of the contestants, which is why she continues to keep him around despite weekly disagreements and warnings from the rest of her contestants about his behavior.
One of the most dramatic moments of the season has been teased in previews, and the conversation appears to be centered around Brown and Parker disagreeing over Brown's sexual behavior with the other contestants. Monday's episode offered a preview to that showdown when Parker, who spoke about his Christian beliefs and having a religious awakening at the start of the season, reacted emotionally after hearing that Brown went naked bungee jumping with one of the other men.
"I know that your body is a temple and I'm just thinking of you holding him bare-skinned and I'm just thinking in my mind, it really pissed me off and it really frustrated me," Parker told the former Miss Alabama, calling her behavior a "slap in the face."
When Brown revisited the conversation at the end of the episode, she said she had time to digest his words and offered a stinging rebuke: "You're not my husband. You don't own my body, you don't own me. It's my body."
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