Is it a sin to watch sports where the athletes are immodest?

[Manwë Súlimo]

Polo - You will never find a more wretched sport of scum and villainy



































Seriously though, I can't really think of any sport where this seems like an issue. But if it causes YOU to stumble, it becomes a sin to you, even if it's perfectly fine for another person.

[Andius]

I agree. If someone cannot avoid thinking lustful thoughts when watching certain sporting events, then it would be a good idea to avoid watching those things.

Suppose there is a sporting event that demeans women and treats them like sex objects. Would it be wrong to watch it even if you are not tempted to commit adultery in your heart?

Mmhh, in the event where the women are exhibited as sex objects? Mmmhh I can hardly call it demeaning when said women voluntarily agree to display themselves as such (Cheerleader squads come to mind). I hardly consider it wrong. Especially since me and my former youth pastor (we be love our NFL ^^ ), amongst the discussions we have, is also which team has the more beautiful and fairer cheerleaders (Cowboys vs Redskins in our case). Said former youth pastor is a married man, and we actually have these discussions to the point that his wife butts in and also starts defending the cowboy cheerleading squad (to my astonished surprise when it first happened). Naturally, we refrain from using crude language to describe the girls (we tend to be faaarrr fear more poetic, think borderline Song of Songs).

His wife as witness, she can testify how we can observe and appreciate the cheerleaders displayed on TV, and hardly think any less of them (especially since their internal competitions in cheerleading merits admiration) as "sexual objects. It has entered into our consideration the temptation factor, but since the women who are friends with us know that we are like that (and he, me, and my friends, are men of good reputation), we can easily say that we are hardly tempted.

[siliconwafer]

i'm not crazy about this upcoming superbowl (which my husband will watch). Why? Because those superbowl commercials will be all innuendo, especially the go daddy one wtih the 2 women painting another bare woman. I start to wonder if it's just "me" and all other women in America are behaving 'normally' at their husband watching these (soft prn) commercials and then i try to snap out of it. If I try to explain this to my husband he'll call me immature and shake his head.

Those commercials were designed to stir up lust in the hearts of men. Many non-Christians see no problem with those commercials; they see nothing wrong with committing fornication or adultery in one's heart.

[Pilgrim]

Is it a sin to watch sports where the athletes are immodestly dressed? The reason why I'm asking is because I have heard from other people that one should not watch sporting events where the athletes are immodestly dressed. They would say that it would be wrong to watch those kinds of sporting events even if you have no intention of lusting after people.

How do you define what is immodest clothing? Two people can look at the same clothing and have a difference of opinion concerning whether it is immodest.

No, it's not wrong. Next question?