Playing with Fire Podcast

Sports Illustrated Lowers the Bar

Is Sports Illustrated so lacking in substance that it needs to include immodestly dressed women all over the front page of its website in order to attract customers?

Here’s the way I see it. If I do not understand what virtue is and why it is important to my happiness, there is a good chance that I will drift toward vice, the bad stuff, and ultimately not be happy. For many it is almost too late since any talk about being “good” seems childish or fanatical. However, this way of thinking leads to a vicious downward spiral in which people become more accustomed to vice and less aware of its damaging effects.

So when I mention words like modesty and chastity I hope you will continue reading and thinking. What do these words mean? The New Advent Encyclopedia describes chastity as, ‘the virtue which excludes or moderates the indulgence of the sexual appetite. Chastity is allied to abstinence and sobriety; for, as by these latter the pleasures of the nutritive functions are rightly regulated, so by chastity the procreative appetite is duly restricted.’

I do not want to be exposed to immoral material. Placing it on the front page, for children and adults to see before they have a chance to avert their gaze, is wrong. The soft porn that Sports Illustrated is pedaling is damaging to the dignity of women, family life, and the development of good moral people. How does it contribute to sport as a means for developing virtue? Why bring people down when you have the talent and resources to raise them up?