Amazingly, in light of the issue of sexualizing everything in society, I was shocked to see how many Christians actually were praising the half-time show for being an awesome performance.
The issue of over-sexualization has gotten so pervasive that we don't even stop to consider certain dynamics anymore. If your husband is already aware of the issue, thank goodness - for it really seems that a lot of people focus only on the half-time show and not on the more intense things that have occurred. After the half-time show and during the time where the game was postponed for awhile because of a power -outage, some of the men at my Superbowl Party got to talk on how many will literally trip out at a game pausing where millions are hooked - but not many will pause the game to seriously think/consider on the people harmed and all the negative going on during the event and whether attention was given to it.
For not many were even aware of how all of the commercials played during the SuperBowl and throughout the week are a part of the reason why the Superbowl is the #1 time of the year where Human trafficking is highest in the U.S
., according to Texas attorney general Greg Abbott…and now police, NFL players and Christian ministries are aiming to take on the sex industry.
Had to do a presentation on it last year for Youth Work and I was blown away and how I thought it was the commercials alone that were the issue...and yet it was so much more intricate. The Super Bowl has been called the largest
sex-trafficking event in the United States. Women, men, boys and girls are all sold on the underground for the sexual pleasure of fans caught up in football mania, parties and alcohol.
Because the hoopla surrounding the Super Bowl has expanded beyond Game Day to an entire week of parties and other festivities, large numbers of pimps and their workers flood into the host city each year.
Thousands of girls were brought into Indianapolis for this single event.
Two men were arrested in 2010 for an ad on Craigslist's Miami board advertising sex with a 14-year-old girl as a "Super Bowl Special." And in 2009, Florida's Department of Children and Families reported 24 children — most of whom were runaways — as victims of sex trafficking for the Super Bowl. The 2010 Super Bowl saw an estimated 10,000 sex workers brought into Miami. Despite efforts to crack down on sex trafficking at the 2011 Super Bowl in Dallas, there was still a tremendous number of women and children sexually exploited.
Other men were arrested this 2013 year as well thankfully. Specifically, eight men were previously days before the Superbowl as part of a sex trafficking ring exposed in New Orleans. This case supports advocacy agencies' claims that the Super Bowl is the "single largest human trafficking incident in the United States."
Praise God for the men who've been arrested thus far trying to run game on others during the Super Bowl Game. But it is something that is not taken seriously by many because there has been so much sexualization that it doesn't really phase people to see the consequences and ramifications of the things allowed.
Sexualization is directly tied to the desire for fun at all costs - and as long as that is not addressed, more exploitation will occur. There was a wonderful testimony I was glad for that I wish more were aware of - as it's from a former sex trafficking victim shines light on dark underworld of Super Bowl
If wanting to give your kids or others some good reviews that have aided others in more info on how to protest on the matter:
- Sex-Trafficking at the Super Bowl