Are they going to hell?? How does god feel about that?

Question

I have always wondered if people who are forced into becoming strippers (I won't go as far as prostitution) especially young students who need to pay for school, or if their family is really poor, and they are the only supporters, would it be immoral to obtain a livelihood through this way? As it is known, one night of stripping can pay a lot more than the average minimum wage jobs, and someone who is doing other jobs on the side, or going to school can only easily do that. (Plus you're not forced to sleep with people) Sometimes there maybe be no other option. So, my questions are: is it immoral, what would god say about that predicament, and are these people going to hell??

Answer 1

Let's ask first: "Is there a hell?"

Answer 2

First, there are very few who are FORCED into this profession. Some may find that it's the best paying alternative among other choices, but that's not the same as being forced. Though sex slavery does exist, sex-work, such as stripping is usually a well-formed choice by those who do this.

I have spoken to some people who work in the sex industry, and most are bright, articulate and educated. They choose this work because they find that it pays well, and that they get some enjoyment from it.

If you live in a sexually repressed culture, where everything that feels good is necessarily bad, then this industry seems immoral. If you can get past that, and realize that not all things that feel good are evil, this can actually be rewarding. You are bringing pleasure to people and earning a living at the same time. If it wasn't done in secret, as it is in so many places, and if fewer places made it illegal, it might actually be safer. Where it is in the dark corners and managed by syndicated crime, the dangers are much more.

Many who do this professionally are quite safe, clean and healthy.

You might be interested in looking at the Sex Workers Art Show web site, and find out a bit about some of the people who work in this industry. http://www.sexworkersartshow.com/

Check out some of the biographies and see who these people really are. It's not all about back-alley sex.

Answer 3

Yes stripping is immoral. God would say to trust in Him and don't try to take matters into your own hands by resorting to something so horrible in trying to take care of your finances. There is always a way out of that lifestyle. However, just because someone may be a stripper doesn't mean they are automatically going to hell. A person needs to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in order to get to heaven, and that is what determines whether a person goes to hell or not.

Answer 4

I cannot judge them, only God can, but I will tell you what I know from the Word of God. There are other moral ways to make money. Yes, this is sin in the eyes of God. They can justify it like you have done, but human justification does not negate sin! God wants us to pray to Him thru Jesus for answers to our dilemmas in life and trust that The Lord will help us. Justification stops this process and satan deceives many into justifying sin with the no way out excuses. No way means they haven't trusted The Only Way = Jesus. I know this may seem harsh, but we all have our crosses to bear in life. No one is forced to strip for $. Life can be very hard, but this choice doesn't solve the problem for long. And it certainly creates a spiritual problem that could be eternally fatal - only God knows. I do know that if a person continues to willingly sin, that that is not being a true christian according to God's Word. If you fall into sin and repent and change, The Lord forgives. But to knowingly continue to sin is not repentance. God judges the heart. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

This is just my belief, but I don't believe in hell. We know that God knows what's going to happen, and he wouldn't make a soul if he knew that they were going to go to hell for eternity. Also, why would God create a hell in the first place. God loves us. It doesn't make any sense.
No, those people wouldn't go to hell. What God would say about that is that it's meant to be. It is something that they're meant to do in this lifetime. If they don't learn from it all that they need to, when they're reincarnated again, they will go through a similar experience until they learn what they need to.
Oh, and I do believe it's immoral. That would be a matter of opinion, though, and that's just mine.
There you go. I'm glad I could help. :)

Answer 6

♥ Lana dear girl. I don’t know what church you belong to.
It is good you are religiously conscientious, it helps to survive.
1. God does not send us more trials than we can stand.
2. People never go to hell if they were in hopeless predicament and had to do an indecent act to keep afloat. God knows when you are sincerely remorseful.
3. Don’t do more evil than it is necessary.
4. Do prayer every day and remember item 1!

Answer 7

You don't go to hell for merely one sin, you go to hell for not sanctifying yourself from sin. Stripping is obviously immoral, doing it because of financial troubles does not make it suddenly moral. In the same way someone who has no house cannot be considered moral for killing a home owner and 'moving in'.

Answer 8

more money is not always a good thing. and it isnt worth losing self respect over and most importantly...if you are seriously wanting to know if GOD would approve or not...the answer is no, HE would not...the answer is found in the bible,
Exodus 20:25-26 (King James Version
25And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

26Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Answer 9

I think it would be more fair to say that a part of the male population are such silly sexualy frustrated people, that they actually need strippers or prostitutes.

Poverty is not a sin.

Answer 10

Um, no. It's not immoral. There is no "God" as you speak of him. God has no gender. God does not want people to be in pain for _any_ reason. Otherwise he/she/it is just another person.

I'll ask you one important question: in the capitalist system, is selling your whole body and time as a secretary/any other kind of hourly wage worker any better or _different_ than selling your body as a prostitute? (Except, of course, if you already assume there's something "special" or "sacred" about sex itself?)

Answer 11

They won't go to hell if their life is right with god. If they are doing it for money it's wrong, but they can be forgiven for it and if they stop and they ask for forgiveness God would understand. But if they just pray for forgiveness and go right back and do it again over and over again, that's a different situation. Apparantly they are only praying because they don't want to go to hell, but they are continuing doing something they know is wrong. If they are being forced by someone though. Like if someone says they will kill your kid if you don't continue doing this for them, then yes he would forgive you for it.