Here’s an encouraging article from The National Secular Society:

“Beating off stiff competition, Dr Antony Lempert, co-ordinator of the Secular Medical Forum, was voted ‘Academic of the Year’ in the 2010 Erotic Awards.

He was presented with his prize, a winged golden member, at the Erotic Awards ceremony in Central London on 30th April. He then spoke at a public rally in Regent’s Park on Sunday 2nd May. He said: “At its heart it is a battle waged by those with religiously motivated demands against individual autonomy and consent. The battlefield chosen by the religious bodies is often the genitalia and other people’s sexual freedoms. It has only been by engaging the religions on their own sexual territory that I accidentally find myself working towards a less constrained, less damaged more erotic society. I am delighted to find myself in this camp.”

The Erotic Awards celebrate people working towards sexual freedom around the world. Dr Lempert was given the award in recognition of his work for the Secular Medical Forum to prevent religious bodies from interfering with other people’s bodies. The SMF campaigns for accurate and informative sex and relationship education for children and against childhood ritual genital mutilation. They have argued in favour of condom and abortion services advertising on television and have challenged pharmacists’ rights to refuse to dispense emergency contraception.”

Original article here.