Why Are We Letting Peter Weber Get Harassed on ‘The Bachelor’?

I’ll admit it: Last night’s premiere of The Bachelor offered more drama than I was expecting from Pilot Pete. Not just because of Hannah Brown’s return, but because I found myself feeling oddly sorry for Peter Weber, as he smiled uncomfortably through explicit references to his sex life and women aggressively, physically vying for his attention. After watching one woman blindfold Peter to kiss him, and a second handcuff him to do the same, I was genuinely shocked: Why are we letting Peter get harassed on this season of The Bachelor?

These two incidents both happened before the first rose ceremony — in other words, within Peter’s first five minutes of speaking to either of...

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