Adventist working girls

[Adventist Dissident]

This is a question I have been wanting to ask for a long time.

In the late 1990's I was living At Southern Adventist University. I began to hear things about Adventist Girls and prostitution. I asked some friends who lived in the area about this and they said that they had heard things about the girls at the college.

Also when I was in college we suspected a couple girs of hooking. does anyone else know about this.

 

[RC_NewProtestants]

I think it is pretty common that there will be some from most Colleges public or private who make extra money that way.

 

[Adventist Dissident]

ya, but it seem to be more common place and accepted these days.

 

[Mankin]

That's surprising.

 

[Adventist Dissident]

and the admin, seems to be so nieave about it. if we ignore it it will go away.

 

[Mankin]

and the admin, seems to be so nieave about it. if we ignore it it will go away.

Wow. Maybe they don't feel like interfering in people's private lives or something? Then again, this is also a matter of law breaking so it is their duty as citizens to report it.

 

[Adventist Dissident]

they are student at the colleges. they don't have to give them a place to live

 

[freeindeed2]

There's not a class there that teaches this is there?

LOL! Just kidding...

 

[DRL]

When I was at La Sierra and LLU, I never heard about this. I do know of one girl who dated a professor, who was single. And I do know that some girls were pregnant when they got married.
Growing up in So Cal, I heard people say that the Navy guys liked to date SDA girls. They would not go to movies or dances, but they could sure make out.
Just what went on when I was at SDA schools.
DRL

 

[freeindeed2]

I've seen a few studies (it's been a few years) where those who belong to fundamentalist groups experience higher rates of pre-marrital sex (among other things). Both the rates of pre-marrital sex and divorce and NOT protected by being raised in fundamentalist homes. So it wouldn't surprise me to see this type of activity going on in SDA schools, although I do not believe it is too wide-spread.

In CHRIST alone...

 

[Adventist Dissident]

the fundmentlist are usually the ones that are in the most denial

 

[Sophia7]

I've seen a few studies (it's been a few years) where those who belong to fundamentalist groups experience higher rates of pre-marrital sex (among other things). Both the rates of pre-marrital sex and divorce and NOT protected by being raised in fundamentalist homes. So it wouldn't surprise me to see this type of activity going on in SDA schools, although I do not believe it is too wide-spread.

In CHRIST alone...

I didn't go to academy (for which I am very thankful), but I heard stories from my friends in college about all the ways that kids used to get around the rules in academies. I heard more stories during our ministry about things that were going on at our conference's academy. (I've never heard of girls in Adventist schools engaging in prostitution, though, but it wouldn't surprise me if it happened in some places.) Legalistic rules don't protect anyone, and they don't teach anything other than how to rebel against them. They certainly don't encourage kids to relate appropriately to members of the opposite gender.

 

[foofighter]

Sophia,

I totally agree with you about SDA kids not learning to relate appropriately with the opposite sex. My husband was the principal at a boarding academy and the kids were so immature and somewhat socially behind in many ways. They couldn't go on dates or anything, it is really ridiculous. Looking back on so much of this foolishness called SDA, I'm so thankful that my hubby, daughter and myself are out of it, but I can't help but be a bit sad about how it effected so much of our lives negatively. Lots of rules usually creates rebels or robots

Carol

 

[reddogs]

I didn't go to academy (for which I am very thankful), but I heard stories from my friends in college about all the ways that kids used to get around the rules in academies. I heard more stories during our ministry about things that were going on at our conference's academy. (I've never heard of girls in Adventist schools engaging in prostitution, though, but it wouldn't surprise me if it happened in some places.) Legalistic rules don't protect anyone, and they don't teach anything other than how to rebel against them. They certainly don't encourage kids to relate appropriately to members of the opposite gender.

I agree rules do not ultimately protect anyone as it is better to teach them to love as Christ did. Prostitution is as old as the ages, and the schools or church are not immune, young ladies have come and told me they have been propositioned in church, and at college they would ask for your student ID and charge it at the Village Market or Store. Of course word got around, they were busted by the deans and they were sent home. When you came from Miami, it was just a vice like drugs or smuggling, so seeing it in church or college was no surprise.........

 

[sentipente]

they are student at the colleges. they don't have to give them a place to live

Your OP presented this as a suspicion now you seem to be acting as if it is factual without having supplied any evidence. What are you trying to achieve here?

 

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

This sounds to Moriah like exactly the kind of nasty rumour some legalistic git would start getting all bent out of shape about some attractive young lady wearing short skirts and makeup, in an attempt to shame her as social punishment for not conforming to the dress code of the self-supporting knee-sock crowd or at least the version one two steps removed toward normalcy whats favoured by the local campus conservatives.

In other words, a load of horse puckey what no decent ear ought to lend itself to hearing or storing, and no lip touched by the Spirit of God ought to repeat. After all, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.... (Phil 4:8)

 

[JonMiller]

I have sibligns that went to SDA academies in Oregon, as well as relatives I don't know very well who spent a lot of time in the SDA school system. Nothing suggests that there is lses drug use or sex in the adventist schools than in good public school.

This is some of the reason why I think that adventist education isn't as worth while as many maintain. I know that I personally have less sexual experience than most 21 yearolds in adventist education and am probably less 'repressed' also.

JM
(bad public schools, such as the one I attended (which had the highest pregnancy rate in Oregon for a bit) are a different story however.)

 

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

I have sibligns that went to SDA academies in Oregon, as well as relatives I don't know very well who spent a lot of time in the SDA school system. Nothing suggests that there is lses drug use or sex in the adventist schools than in good public school.

No, of course not. When Moriah attended an SDA college it found just as much drugs and sexual activity going on as one might find in a secular high school. But that did not mean the young ladies on campus bes resorting to prostitution to make ends meet. Most SDA students come from financially comfortable families, particularly considering they bes affording such hefty tuitions for so many years first in church school then academy then college.

 

[Sophia7]

No, of course not. When Moriah attended an SDA college it found just as much drugs and sexual activity going on as one might find in a secular high school. But that did not mean the young ladies on campus bes resorting to prostitution to make ends meet. Most SDA students come from financially comfortable families, particularly considering they bes affording such hefty tuitions for so many years first in church school then academy then college.

My family couldn't afford the hefty tuitions. I got through college by taking out loans (which I'm just now finally getting paid off). I certainly wouldn't have resorted to prostitution if I couldn't make ends meet. Most of the students that I knew who couldn't afford to stay in school just left.

 

[Sophia7]

I have sibligns that went to SDA academies in Oregon, as well as relatives I don't know very well who spent a lot of time in the SDA school system. Nothing suggests that there is lses drug use or sex in the adventist schools than in good public school.

This is some of the reason why I think that adventist education isn't as worth while as many maintain. I know that I personally have less sexual experience than most 21 yearolds in adventist education and am probably less 'repressed' also.

JM
(bad public schools, such as the one I attended (which had the highest pregnancy rate in Oregon for a bit) are a different story however.)

I don't think that Adventist schools are worthwhile enough to justify the high tuition costs and the debt that they encourage families to incur in the name of sacrificing for Christian education.