Dr Michael Goodyear (Canada)

Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie University, Canada. As well as many other things, Michael runs an international  e-group of academics to improve the laws surrounding prostitution. He is a contributing editor for Sex in the Public Square, an internet forum to encourage dialogue between researchers and practitioners in the field of human sexuality and edits articles on sexuality for Wikipedia. He inspires good practice in the researching of sex work, promotes the representation of marginalised groups and, most important, gets out of his ivory tower. Michael has really made a difference, and inspires other academics to do the same.

http://myweb.dal.ca/mgoodyea/goodyear.html

mgoodyear@dal.ca

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Professor Stephen Guest (UK)


Professor of Legal Philosophy at UCL whose lunchtime lecture in 2009 was packed to overflowing. In it, he made the case that the recent legislation to ban the downloading and possession of extreme pornography was based on ill-founded principles that forbid the basic freedom of thought.

He claims, “This government has done so much damage to the criminal law, poking its nose in everywhere and deciding things on our behalf, about such things as our personal and private taste.  It makes my blood boil, and I can see that other people are incensed, too”. 

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/streamed

s.guest@ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Antony Lempert (UK)




A GP in rural Wales who also runs the Secular Medical Forum. The Forum aims to abolish all forms of ritual genital mutilation including non-therapeutic male circumcision, improve access to emergency contraception and abortion and generally keep religious tendrils from interfering with people's sex lives. He works very hard and expresses his views in a gentlemanly, logical yet relentless manner.

He says, “I hold to account those people and organisations who espouse potentially dangerous views or who are engaged in harmful practices. This is particularly the case in the sphere of religion, where entrenched traditional religious privilege so often conflicts with other people’s dignity, autonomy and safety.”

Secular Medical Forum, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.

http://www.secularmedicalforum.org.uk

antony@secularmedicalforum.org.uk

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