Hannah Brown, Chris Harrison and More Fire Back Against Slut-Shaming on ‘The Bachelorette’

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Hannah Brown, Chris Harrison and More Fire Back Against Slut-Shaming on 'The Bachelorette’

No time for shaming! Hannah Brown stood up to Luke Parker during the Monday, July 15, episode of The Bachelorette after he told her, "I don’t believe that’s something you should be doing,” referring to her having sex with any of the other men. "I just want to make sure you’re not going to be sexually intimate with the other relationships here.” With that, the former pageant queen, 24, ended the dinner and sent Parker packing. He didn’t go home easy; she literally had to force him into the limo. “I have had sex,” she told him when he wouldn’t get in the car. “And Jesus still loves me.” As shown in the trailer for the next episode, he will return at the rose ceremony — but she immediately turns him down. “This is not about your heart. F—king leave,” she says. While at the taping for The Bachelorette's Men Tell All episode, Brown, host Chris Harrison and many others opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about the tone of the season — and how Brown has shut down slut-shaming time and time again. "There’s always gonna be people who just don’t get it or don’t want to get it, and I really can’t focus on that because I am working on bigger and better things than what people have to say about me,” Brown told Us at the time. "But I think the slut-shaming and issues like that, that’s just a whole bigger problem in itself. It’s not really directed at me, it’s just an issue that we need to address on a bigger level.” Scroll through our gallery for more members of Bachelor Nation speaking out on the slut-shaming this season.

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Hannah Brown, Chris Harrison and More Fire Back Against Slut-Shaming on 'The Bachelorette’

No time for shaming! Hannah Brown stood up to Luke Parker during the Monday, July 15, episode of The Bachelorette after he told her, "I don’t believe that’s something you should be doing,” referring to her having sex with any of the other men. "I just want to make sure you’re not going to be sexually intimate with the other relationships here.” With that, the former pageant queen, 24, ended the dinner and sent Parker packing. He didn’t go home easy; she literally had to force him into the limo. “I have had sex,” she told him when he wouldn’t get in the car. “And Jesus still loves me.” As shown in the trailer for the next episode, he will return at the rose ceremony — but she immediately turns him down. “This is not about your heart. F—king leave,” she says. While at the taping for The Bachelorette's Men Tell All episode, Brown, host Chris Harrison and many others opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about the tone of the season — and how Brown has shut down slut-shaming time and time again. "There’s always gonna be people who just don’t get it or don’t want to get it, and I really can’t focus on that because I am working on bigger and better things than what people have to say about me,” Brown told Us at the time. "But I think the slut-shaming and issues like that, that’s just a whole bigger problem in itself. It’s not really directed at me, it’s just an issue that we need to address on a bigger level.” Scroll through our gallery for more members of Bachelor Nation speaking out on the slut-shaming this season.

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Hannah Brown

"I think there is a double standard for men and women. I definitely think there’s a different standard for men and women in general about how we should view our sexuality and intimacy and what is considered ladylike or not,” she told Us. "We’ve really  got to start the conversation and it’s really important to not make people feel ashamed. We have to talk about what’s right for your body and what you believe and what you want to do but to call people out and make people feel unworthy and dirty, that’s really when there becomes issues and people feel insecure and start having poor images [of themselves] and it becomes this big epidemic. I think it’s really got to change.”

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Chris Harrison

"Of course there’s a double standard between men and women. One of the things that I really love about this show is that it brings out some of these social dynamics and these debates — whether it’s slut-shaming or religion, faith and relationships and  how it’s applied and how that’s applied to sex and sex before marriage and what that means,” Harrison, 47, told Us. "Life’s not so black and white, and there is a big happy medium. So I hope we did raise the level of debate on a lot of these issues.”

The host also shared that with having a 15-year-old daughter, he’s so happy these conversations are happening. "No one wants to talk about the fact that you’ve had sex in a windmill with somebody," he said of Brown's revelation. "She reluctantly kind of became that hero, the voice and the face of this, so hopefully other women in toxic relationships or other women facing this won’t face this. She’s not afraid to tell everybody she screwed up, and that ‘I fail,’ and ‘I’m insecure,’ and ‘Yeah, it hurts me when people say I’m a slut.’ That, to me, is power. ... She's relatable. And I think women watching, including my daughter, will say, ‘That’s me. She represents me.’"

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Dylan Barbour

"I think we’ve just continued to facilitate that standard [with Luke]. It’s really frustrating to see. I come from a house of very strong women — a single mom, she raised me by herself, essentially, and to kind of see how [Luke] treated that situation was frustrating,” the 24-year-old contestant said. "I’m just hoping that he doesn’t do that anymore, that he grows and learns from the process, and I’m just really excited to see Hannah shut it down."

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Demi Burnett

“Aside from my season because we had the virgin who didn’t go to the fantasy suites with anyone, all the other seasons, there are guys who go to fantasy suites and no one asks questions about whether or not they had sex with someone,” Burnett, who appeared on Colton Underwood’s season of The Bachelor told Us. "But whenever it comes to a woman who is just feeling in the moment and maybe she’s straddling people, they’re saying how bad that is. She’s feeling passion, she’s into it, and she likes it and that’s OK. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that and it pissed me off seeing all of the hate that [Hannah] got for simply just being in the moment and enjoying the presence of someone and doing what her body felt was good."

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Becca Kufrin and Kaitlyn Bristowe

"Women can have sex if they choose, and women can wait till marriage if they choose. Point is, ITS THEIR CHOICE. When you’re making a life altering decision to find a life partner, intimacy can be important. Why is that so hard to understand?” Former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe, who admitted she had sex with Nick Viall on her season, tweeted on July 2 — and she was only one of many who had reached out to Brown.

“Some of the Bachelorettes and Bachelors have been really supportive," she told Us. "It’s been really nice because they’re the ones that really understand what this is like. Becca [Kufrin] has been just so awesome about just encouraging me and keeping updated. Kaitlyn has been awesome. We had definitely different experiences, but she had criticism as well. Colton’s been great."

The Bachelorette airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.