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...(with the help of the ABC network), and then proceeds to engage in physical contact with almost all of them. At the end of each episode, he chooses a certain number of women to eliminate. Of course, the winner is the last one not eliminated. Most "winners" of shows like these receive cash rewards or vacations. But the winner of this certain show, The Bachelor, will marry the bachelor. That is the prize — marriage to a man the contestants hardly even know. Apparently there used to be a show where women battled to marry a millionaire who actually had a history of domestically abusing the women he had dated. Ever since MTV started airing its "reality" television series The Real World, networks have been scratching and clawing to fall in line with thehype. CBS's Survivor and Big Brother only fanned the flames, and now every network has its own reality show. But some networks have chosen to integrate dating with reality television, which is outrageous and disgusting. It's not that I'm some hardcore marriage-defending conservative. You can be as godless as possible and still believe in the sanctity of love and self-respect. There will be people on NBC's Fear Factor later this week eating live cockroaches. What has our society come to? As I sat there watching The Bachelor I couldn't help but to wonder — where did these women come from? Who made them believe that they needed to be in the feces-spotlight of prime-time television to be pawned off to a stran...