Celebrate Sexual Freedom Day on September 23

The Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to affirming sexual freedom as a fundamental human right, will celebrate Sexual Freedom Day on September 23 in Washington, DC with the release of the State of Sexual Freedom in the U.S. 2010 Report.

The report is intended to “provide a baseline discussion of where we (the U.S.) are politically and socially and what can be done to advance sexual freedom as a fundamental human right into the mainstream of American society in the next 20 years.”

The event in DC will also include presentations of the Woodull Freedom Foundation's annual "Vicki" awards, given to individuals or organizations whose work and/or life embodies the mission and vision of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. The recipients of this year's Vicki Award are Bina Aspen & Martine Rothblatt, Dr. Deborah Taj Anapol, Kushaba Moses Mworeko and Susan Wright.

• Rothblatt, CEO of United Therapeutics, one of the creators of Sirius Satellite Radio, and author of Your Life Or Mine: How Geoethics Can Resolve The Conflict Between Public And Private Interests In Xenotransplantation, is a male-to-female transsexual. She and her wife Bina Aspen are vocal advocates for transgender issues.
• Anapol is the founder of Love Without Limits and author of Polyamory in the 21st Century (2010), Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits (1997) and The Seven Natural Laws of Love (2005) and cofounder of Loving More Magazine.
• Mworeko is a gay man and international gay rights activist from Uganda currently seeking asylum in the United States after his country introduced laws making it a crime not to report gays and calling for the execution of homosexual men and women.
• Wright is the founder of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and is a popular author of science fiction, art books, and pop-culture books.

Via XBIZ.com:

The event will include a policy breakfast followed by panels and discussions addressing a slew of topics, including the intersections between government policy and lawmaking, sexual expression and sexual practices, among others.

Panelists include Angelina Spencer, Mark Kernes, Kenyon Farrow, Amber Hollibaugh, Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, Lawrence Walters, Carmen Vasquez, RJ Thompson, Dr. Elizabeth Wood, Mia Mingus and others.

Adult industry attorney Lawrence Walters, who penned a portion of the State of Sexual Freedom Report titled “The Human Right to Sexual Expression,” also will be participating in the event.

Walters told XBIZ that he’s been involved with the Woodhull Freedom Foundation for years, but this is the first time he’s gotten involved as a writer and presenter.

“The Sexual Freedom Day event is important, to call attention to the evolving human right of sexual expression,” Walters said. “It takes tremendous effort to move the law in a particular direction, and events like this help shape public attitudes toward human sexuality, and remove the taboo otherwise typically associated with public discussion of sexual issues.”

In his portion of the report, Walters covers various sexual expressions and trends in modern society that he argues derive from natural human behavior, yet due to their sexual nature are automatically vilified and punishable in court.

Topics such as teen sexting, exhibition and voyeurism, S&M and fetish, as well as pornography are discussed with references to court cases in which defendants were prosecuted based on subjective ideas and double standards.

“I've worked on this piece for many months, and I hope it helps educate the public, and lawmakers, about the evolving human right to sexual expression,” Walters said. “Eventually, we hope the courts recognize this right as implicit in the Constitution, along with the right of privacy and sexual intimacy, that the Supreme Court discussed in the Lawrence v. Texas case, invalidating sodomy laws throughout the country.”