Controversial Super Bowl Half-Time Show

Like millions of others across the globe, we gathered with friends and family to watch last Sunday’s Super Bowl.

While you may have had no “team” in the game, anyone around the NFL was rooting for Andy Reid to grab his first Super Bowl Trophy, especially after last year’s devastating playoff loss. The game was certainly not a disappointment.

The half-time show, well, that’s another story.

Stark Reality

Blogs have been abuzz all week and the proverbial line in the sand has been drawn. One side declares, “What a fantastic show that was!”. The other side argues, “What a sad moment of sexual objectification it displayed.”

Many of the nation’s cultural influencers are holding this show up as one for the ages while citing the notable absence of people taking off clothing including shirts, undergarments, etc. They go as far as shaming any who says or writes anything against Sunday night’s performance.

No, there were no wardrobe malfunctions that showed body parts best left covered in a public venue such as Janet Jackson’s fiasco years ago. But on Sunday night two of the most popular female artists of our era promoted a pornographic message to the masses and tried to pass it off as art. The world got a front-row seat in how deeply porn has weaved its way into the fabric of life and how seared our conscience has become to its dehumanizing presence.

Let’s face it: our world accepts such entertainment as the industry standard and, as such, we can expect it to only worsen as the masses respond in delight. But we know better.

We know that what we experienced on Sunday night was nothing less than the porn industry saying, “We own you, America! Sit down, shut up, and enjoy the show. We promise you there is more to come.”

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The Deceptive Nature Of Porn

While their deceit runs underground, they would never be so brazen because the “MO” of the porn industry has been to infiltrate a subtle lull-us-to-sleep invasion for decades. Just flip through the channels on any given night and, time and time again, you find that the porn industry has accomplished its goal: normalization and wide-spread acceptance.

Here are a few reasons why the claim is made that Super Bowl LIV’s Half-time performance was a public display of porn’s power and what is essentially proclaiming:

1. Sexual Objectification Is Okay Something Women Eagerly Embrace

At one point the artist gets going on hip thrusts that serve an erotic proclamation that she is sexually available. There simply is no other rational way to interpret these sexuality explicit moves.

2. Normalization Of Female Subjugation And Sexual Aggression Toward Women

Both these performers enforced porn’s primary message: women are here to satisfy man’s base-line sexual urges and men can take them any time they want.

Multiple times the positioning of the performers went well beyond belly dancing and complex dance moves to ones of sexual subjugation and domination.

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3. The Porn-way Is The World’s Way

The porn industry routinely brags about how pervasive it has become. By virtue of two of the world’s most powerful female artists performing on arguably the largest stage possible, this industry will seek to root itself more deeply into the soil of every household in the world.

Add to that the presence of costumes that appeared to have been fashioned by porn-industry designers, as well as the presence of a stripper-pole, and it’s easy to see how pornographic this show was and how powerful the industry wants us to believe it is! A stripper-pole can be contrived as nothing other than a stripper-pole.

Regardless of the varied usage it’s gained in our culture, the stripper-pole is unequivocally a vehicle for the sexual objectification and subjugation of women that porn dearly loves!

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Take A Stand

But hope is not lost…we believe there is a remnant of anti-porn warriors that is strong, growing, and slowly-but-surely making in-roads into the world in powerful ways.

Millions of men have taken on the challenge of crushing the influence of porn in their lives through the Conquer Series. The Conquer Series is a powerful cinematic study combining both Scripture and Science to help individuals break free from the bondage of sexual sin.

This week, we want to encourage you to take up the battle once more. We want to encourage you to speak out against porn and take a stand against this enemy of every living thing! Use this moment in time to finally speak up and say enough is enough. This moment and others like these are moments we must seize and encourage one another to work to bring an end to pornography in our lifetime. Wondering where to start?

Consider taking action with some or all of these options:

Bring your addiction into the light. You cannot fight this alone. Porn addiction thrives in the darkness and shrivels in the light.
Find resources that will help you understand the nature of this addiction and how you can live a porn-free life. The Conquer Series is a great place to start.
Commit to sexual purity and sharing that vision with your children!
Bring the message to your pastor, elders, church, and be a voice for freedom in your congregation and community.
Pray diligently for the end of porn and for ministries like this one.
Make a regular financial contribution to ministries committed to helping men and women live porn-free lives.

Men, lest we think our battle is just for ourselves, the battlefield is for all of humanity.

Related Article: How To Get Over Porn & Find Lasting Freedom

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Enough Is Enough

We are fighting for our sons and daughters who are currently being ravaged by a culture gone wild from this porn-induced stupor. Additionally, we are fighting for our wives, our schools, our homes, our neighborhoods, our country, our world. We are fighting for our souls, the very life that is within us.

As the creators of the Conquer Series, we believe we are raising up a nation of conquerors ready to take this fight to the porn industry that helped make the fight necessary. We ask you to join us. Stand with us. We are your brothers and sisters who have struggled and have said “no more.”

We believe God is raising up a remnant to speak and – most importantly – live a prophetic message in our world. A message that proclaims the vision of Godly integrity and biblical vision of sexuality.

It’s a message that says loudly, boldly, proudly: No human should ever be sexually objectified. No human being should ever be promoted as a tool to satisfy lust, carnal craving, or insatiable and distorted sexual desires.

And if such a message should ever be promoted – as we witnessed this during the Super Bowl’s half-time show – on the largest entertainment stage in the world, by two of the most prolific female artists of our time, then we should stand up with one voice and say – for the sake of our children, our culture, our country, our conscience – “Enough is enough! We can do better.

We MUST do better. Now is the time to become conquerors who stand together for all!”