The ABC real­ity series “The Bachelor” is one of my guilty pleasures.

Jake Pavelka, this season’s 32-year old pilot from Denton, TX, is look­ing for his true love on the pop­u­lar real­ity dat­ing show that gives 25 women a chance at love. However, it dis­gusts to me wit­ness the motives of some of the women that par­tic­i­pate in the show who claim to be look­ing for “love.”

A few episodes ago, one of the women, Rozlyn Papa, the model/make-up artist from Richmond, VA, was let go as a con­tes­tant from the show after it was learned that she had an “inap­pro­pri­ate” rela­tion­ship with one of the show’s producers.

When inter­viewed on “The Insider,” Papa denied any inap­pro­pri­ate rela­tions with the pro­ducer. However, she did not deny she spent time with him.

I won­der if some of these women go on the show to get their pre­cious 15 min­utes or, more likely, sec­onds of fame. Whatever their moti­va­tions, I do get a kick out of some of the drama and scan­dals that take place on the show prac­ti­cally every season.

Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I could not imag­ine myself fight­ing over a guy and liv­ing in a house with 24 other women. There is sim­ply no way I could do that.

Personally, I wouldn’t feel too com­fort­able telling a guy about myself with a cam­era crew record­ing our every word and move. It could be that I pre­fer at least a small amount of privacy.

I’m cer­tain I wouldn’t enjoy my “com­pe­ti­tion” trash­ing me and then hav­ing to later watch some edited ver­sion of what was said.

It could be that I find it some­how super­fi­cial and imprac­ti­cal to expect to find love on a dat­ing real­ity show. Not too many of the cou­ples end up liv­ing “hap­pily ever after.” Not too sur­pris­ing as their “rela­tion­ship” is aired on national tele­vi­sion for America to witness.

Certainly, there are some suc­cess sto­ries that resulted from the show. Take into con­sid­er­a­tion Trista (the first “Bachelorette”) and Ryan Sutter, who are mar­ried and have two kids. Not to men­tion last season’s now engaged Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney, who are set to be mar­ried on March 8 and will air their wed­ding on ABC.

So, maybe it’s not all bad, but becom­ing a con­tes­tant on a real­ity show, a dat­ing real­ity show for that mat­ter, is not my cup of tea.

I’m con­tent watch­ing the “love” scenes, the trash talk and the drama on my tele­vi­sion screen. It’s that simple.