The Most Prude Colleges

Another school year is starting and colleges around the country are once again full of intoxicated youth. Sunday mornings mark the regret of young men and women who hooked-up the night before and either cannot remember what they did, or do remember and are trying to forget. But there are some universities where sex is taboo and rarely discussed. Though sex is omnipresent in American society, sex education has never been a black-and-white issue – especially on college campuses – but the statistics are impossible to ignore: nearly 25 percent of college students have or have had an STI and people ages 15 to 24 contract nearly half of all new STIs. Yet not all universities believe sexual health resources are relevant and do what they can to stifle their students’ carnal desires. Here is CM’s list for the 10 most prude colleges:

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[rinku]

07:56 AM on 02/16/2012

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[satdown]

01:59 AM on 02/16/2012

Indiana Wesleyan University. No dancing, drinking, R-rated movies, M-rated video games, co-ed dorms... If you are caught having sex, you will be expelled. If you are pregnant and unwed, you will be expelled. If you are committed/commit yourself to a psychiatric hospital, you will be expelled because you are "a liability." (and yes, that is a direct quote from administration) There's no football team, because the alumni benefactors think it's too dangerous, and there's no swim team, because the alumni benefactors think it's to risque. Even the employees are required to sign a statement saying they won't watch R-rated movies, play M-rated games, and drink.

[Leo Siebert]

02:22 PM on 02/15/2012

You've forgotten Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA.

[emncaity]

07:09 PM on 02/13/2012

And by the way, as ridiculous as some of the rules and structures at some of the religious colleges are, the fact is that it's nobody's business who doesn't fund them or go there. Public institutions are a whole different matter.

Also, re the Notre Dame description: Is the writer saying that the only way to know "how to interact with the opposite sex" is to have sex?

[emncaity]

07:07 PM on 02/13/2012

I mean, some of these schools are ridiculous, and I'm all for making health services available, but...God forbid anybody should require anything resembling self-restraint, or anything short of constant self-indulgence and irresponsibility, from "children" who are 18 years old, or 21, or whatever.

[alejandronlv]

02:30 AM on 02/09/2012

Just a few notes about Pepperdine (coming from a current gay Pepperdine student): Pepperdine no longer has a fence segregating the dorms, and, in fact, they now alternate male and female dorms. The opposite sex may stay in dorm rooms until 1 AM. (Admittedly, this is still silly, but I wouldn't call it terribly prudish.) Sex is also discussed among many students, although it's definitely more taboo with the administration. Finally, Pepperdine has denied a gay-straight alliance four times. That occurred most recently in December, even though the group had the support of most students and faculty, and you can read more about that here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/shenegotiates/2012/02/01/negotiating-with-the-lgbt-community-at-pepperdine-university/2/

[cleylol]

11:49 AM on 02/07/2012

I don't think it's fair that they get kicked out of school for having pre-marital sex. Chances are they'll already feel really bad about it since they've probably vowed to be abstinent. No need to humiliate them further. Where's the mercy?

[lensman3]

01:28 PM on 02/06/2012

Hard to define a co-ed school "co-ed" if they have a fence down the middle to separate the sexes. Puritans should go back to Europe...

[eric14]

02:10 PM on 02/06/2012

Europe has changed.

[paulwl]

10:34 AM on 02/05/2012

All of these schools have had their sex scandals . . . .t-o-o!!! Fact: I got more play at/with/on religious 'babes' compared to public schools. All 'boxes' get hot and that itch will get scratched.
Let your fingers do the walking. . . ..

[squirrely girl]

12:06 AM on 02/05/2012

It's not as though folks at these schools aren't having sex... they're just sneaking around and lying about it.

[weareallzombies]

05:22 PM on 02/15/2012

I think they were judging by the administration and college rules more than what the students do.

[magicalrealist]

11:23 PM on 02/04/2012

Three words: Pensacola Christian College. I'm amazed PCC didn't end up on that list; their draconian rules make Bob Jones, ORU (and the also-overlooked Liberty University) look like hotbeds of hedonism.

And I imagine Ave Maria University is hardly a Bacchanal waiting to happen, either.

[GuiltyUndertaker]

12:46 PM on 02/06/2012

Yes, I've heard about Ave Maria U. Sounds like hell on Earth.

[xansam]

01:14 PM on 02/04/2012

wonder what the abortion/shotgun wedding rate is?

[David8067]

12:43 PM on 02/04/2012

That shot of Pepperdine is gorgeous ...

[realpragmatist]

08:54 PM on 02/04/2012

Very strange. When I was in Sioux Falls, SD (beautiful city with wonderful people - in the 1990s), I had a friend and colleague who was in the US military before. His dream university was Pepperdiene University, as he said that the students were very rich and the women very gorgeous. But if they are so prudish, what is the use ;-). Well he was a very strict Catholic and maybe he meant for the right reasons. OK, let us get real.....;-)

[GuiltyUndertaker]

12:48 PM on 02/06/2012

Pepperdine students probably think all Catholics are going to Hell and think the pope is the Antichrist.

Pepperdine -- Kenneth Starr's university. Need I say more?

[BurtonDesque]

05:14 AM on 02/04/2012

As usual, as Hitch used to say, "Religion poisons everything".

[BurtonDesque]

05:13 AM on 02/04/2012

Re: Hillsdale:

"The student health center does not offer any form of contraception because the college's mission statement forbids it"

No, it doesn't, at least not explicitly: http://www.hillsdale.edu/about/history/mission.asp

The last paragraph is just bizarre.

[eric14]

02:13 PM on 02/06/2012

Like you say, that last paragraph is really bizarre. So argumentative and ideological.