Love Island viewers express unease over Alex’s bedroom behaviour

‘The fact that he took her hand and guided it down his pants is just pure gross!’

A number of Love Island viewers have expressed their disapproval on Twitter after discovering that Alex had placed Alexandra’s hand on his penis while the couple lay in bed together.

The interaction was revealed in last night’s episode, during which Alexandra took fellow contestants Laura, Megan and Dani aside to tell them about the happenings of the night before.

Despite Alexandra appearing in good spirits the morning after and describing herself as feeling “giddy”, many fans of the show have tweeted about the disquiet that they felt over Dr. Alex’s bedroom behaviour.

“Alex makes me feel so uneasy,” one person wrote.

“The fact that he took her hand and guided it down his pants is just pure gross!”

“Can we just be clear that Alexandra did not put her hand down Alex’s pants. Alex forced her hand down his pants,” another commented.

“He’s a absolute creep and you just know he’s selfish and unaware of women’s needs [sic].”

This isn’t the first time the actions of contestants on Love Island have been called into question in regard to consent.

Very early on in the show, Adam was criticised for encouraging Kendall to kiss him in exchange for not having to spoon later on in bed.

Despite Adam and Kendall then kissing on their first date, Kendall seemed visibly uncomfortable while doing so and later on expressed her upset over the kiss.

The issue of consent on Love Island is especially poignant given the amount of coverage that the #MeToo movement has been receiving in the media in recent months.

In January this year, comedian Aziz Ansari was accused of making non-consensual sexual advances on a woman that he’d been on a date with the previous year.

Although Ansari has since responded to the accusations saying that he believed that their encounter was “completely consensual”, the woman claimed that she had felt “uncomfortable” and “violated”.

Earlier this month, it was reported that new legislative reforms in Australia could mean that people in the country would need to establish vocal consent before having sex, otherwise the act could be deemed as rape in the eyes of the law.