Maureen Kendler teaches at the London School for Jewish Studies where she is also Head of Educational Programming. She writes extensively for the Jewish press, and broadcasts for BBC Radio 2’s “Pause for Thought”.

As an Orthodox British Jew, she says that Judaism clearly celebrates, values and enjoys sexuality, but within boundaries. “It is equally clear to me that the current sexualisation of society has distorted those boundaries, especially where young girls are concerned.”

Dr Jenny Taylor founded Lapido Media to promote “religious literacy”, understanding among journalists and opinion formers about how religion shapes world affairs. The name Lapido means “speak up” in the Acholi dialect of Northern Uganda.

She co-ordinates a team of journalists and informed professionals. She is the author of A Wild Constraint: the Case for Chastity (Continuum) – a prescient exploration of sexualisation and the destruction of childhood. “Religion integrates human motives and organizes the world for better or worse” she argues. “Our current secular approach to sex results directly in child exploitation. AC Grayling told me on live BBC radio that the word chastity no longer has any social currency; but Jimmy Savile was never stopped for precisely that reason.”

Donna Freitas writes both fiction and non-fiction, and blogs, and is a Professor of Religious Studies in New York. She has conducted academic research on the attitudes of college students about sex and faith, and how these interact with respect to sexual decision-making on campus, written up in her book “Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance and Religion on America’s College Campuses”. Donna’s latest book will be available in the UK from 18th April from Basic Book, “The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy”

Catherine Pepinster has since 2004 been editor of The Tablet, a weekly Catholic journal which she describes as providing a forum for “progressive, but responsible Catholic thinking, a place where orthodoxy is at home but ideas are welcome.” She is the first woman to edit The Tablet.

She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s “Thought for the Day”, where in a recent broadcast she spoke of women today struggling with the way society objectifies them, and suggested they are on “the brink of hyper-sexualised disaster”.