The Bachelor hits a new low with "escort" scandal

The Daily Beast

"No one should face scrutiny for working as an escort, or for doing sex work," says Laura Bradley of Monday's episode, which saw the addition of five new women for Matt James. "Given the show’s embrace of a challenge weeks ago that prompted Matt’s contestants to write erotica, this puritanical backlash against a supposed escort just weeks later is disappointing, if not particularly shocking." ALSO: ABC executive Robert Mills says adding five new women "wasn't just to shake things up."