Today's entrant is Stephen. His entry was submitted by his wife, April -

"My husband Stephen is the most mentally sexy husband and Dad. Stephen has always been an attentive and loving husband, but since the birth of both our two children, Cooper (22 months) and Ella (3 months), Stephen has been a complete hands-on Dad and continued to be an attentive husband.

Stephen works full-time and yet comes home each evening to cook our dinner. This has helped me to work from home each day. Stephen collects Cooper from day-care on the two afternoons he attends, and will usually bath Cooper each evening, before giving him his bottle and putting him to bed.

If Stephen is not doing something around the house, he is asking me if he can take Ella off my hands to have a rest or if I need to do some work. When we go out, he makes sure that I eat first, while he feeds Cooper at the same time holding Ella.

While a Mum may do these things naturally, I do not know one other male who thinks to do any of these things. The other Dads usually tease Stephen when we are out and he has the children with him. He cannot understand their views and simply responds with, "I am spending time with my children". If Stephen has to do some time consuming tasks around the house, he will actually thank me for looking after the children all day!

Ask anyone we know, and they will agree that Stephen is the best husband and Dad without a doubt."

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Stephen - you're awesome. Great entry, April.

• The cut off date for entries is approaching fast (September 12). If you are an entrant who has yet to get their Mentally Sexy Photo back to me I’d really appreciate it if you could email that through as soon as possible.
• Are you a Mentally Sexy Dad? Is your partner a Mentally Sexy Dad? If you think you have what it takes to win the Australian title, enter yourself or your partner/husband by sending your Mentally Sexy Spiel here.
• Thanks to everyone who has joined the Mentally Sexy Fan Page. It continues to grow. Join here if you haven’t already and spread the word to all your friends and family.

If you’ve been referred to the website via Radio National’s newsletter, welcome. Have a look around. Have some fun. Get Mentally Sexy and send your (or your partner’s) entry in. All the competition details, including how to enter, rules and prizes can be found to the right of this page.

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There's not long to go now. On September 12 all entries will be on their way to the four Mentally Sexy Judges who will use select criteria to choose the Top Five Most Mentally Sexy Aussie Dads. The top five will be announced on this website on Thursday September 17.

Radio National Life Matters – the Most Mentally Sexy Radio Program – will interview the Top Five Dads a week later on Thursday 30 September. Listeners will then be able to go to their website to vote for the Dad they think should win The Listener’s Choice Award. The prize for the winner is a package of books and CD's donated by The ABC Bookshop. The winner of this award will be announced along with Australia’s Most Mentally Sexy Dad on Thursday October 7, again on Life Matters.

If this is all seeming a tad confusing you can keep up to date by checking in on the website and joining the Facebook Fan Page for regular announcements.

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Good to see some healthy competition developing in the race for The People’s Choice Award. We now have three contestants – Mentally Sexy Tim, Mentally Sexy Mark and Mentally Sexy Anthony with votes in the thousands! Cripes! The voting for The People's Choice Award will stay open until October 7. Just to point out again – this supplementary prize has nothing to do with the Top Five Dads or the eventual winner of the title. That's in the hands of the judges.

Today's entrant is Linden. His entry was submitted by his wife Anna -

"Where did I find this guy? The only part of this man which is not sexy is his finances. That’s because he sacrificed his full-time job as a secondary school teacher to become a full-time stay-home dad to our daughter so that I could return to work and resume my career - and that's sexy enough on its own. But thankfully, despite his ‘financial unsexiness’ he more than makes up for it in other ways:

Culinarily sexy: Every morning he asks me what I want for dinner and then, when I get home, there it is, on the table, ready.

Domestically sexy: The floors are clean, the clothes are clean, the dishes are clean. The child is also clean. He takes care of all the things I don’t want to have to do when I get home from work.

Outdoorilly sexy: Thanks to a stint in Plant School in his formative years, my husband’s favourite magazines are seed catalogues. He loves the smell of freshly cut grass in the morning. When the child is cranky he prams her up to Bunnings and everyone is happy.

Physically sexy: ahem...

Mentally Sexy: Well if the above doesn’t add up to mental sexiness then perhaps I have picked a dud. But I don’t think so. I picked a winner.

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That's a whole lotta sexy! Good work Linden and well said Anna.

• The cut off date for entries is approaching fast (September 12). If you are an entrant who has yet to get their Mentally Sexy Photo back to me I’d really appreciate it if you could email that through as soon as possible.
• Are you a Mentally Sexy Dad? Is your partner a Mentally Sexy Dad? If you think you have what it takes to win the Australian title, enter yourself or your partner/husband by sending your Mentally Sexy Spiel here. Due to the time limitations, there won't be a chance to post out any Mentally Sexy Clothing for photos. So make sure you include a picture that displays you at your Mentally Sexiest with your entry.
• Thanks to everyone who has joined the Mentally Sexy Fan Page. It continues to grow. Join here if you haven’t already and spread the word to all your friends andfamily.

Today's entrant is Marlon. His entry was submitted by his wife, Aphrodite -

"Hi my name is Aphrodite. I am the lucky stay at home wife of Marlon. Together, we have a gorgeous 10 month old little lady named Nevaeh. At the moment I am also twenty weeks pregnant. Marlon is an electrician for the railway. He is also a 33 year old male of Lebanese decent. Now this is where my hubby gets interesting....

Before we met, Marlon lived at home with his parents and lived the typical Lebanese male life. He wouldn't have to lift a finger. If anyone tells you mothered ethnic men are useless, Marlon proves that theory wrong. He will get home after working 9-10 hours. He has a shower and takes Nevaeh in with him so I don’t have to bath her. He gets out picks up any baby bottles that need washing, washes them, sterilizes them them, refills them with the boiling water ready for me to use again. He washes up anything that I haven't done, then he takes the dirty washing and puts a load on if needed, folds any clean washing and puts it away. He gives Nevaeh something to eat if she hasn't eaten, then spends the rest of the night playing with her while I rest before going to bed.

I can honestly tell you I have NEVER, in the 3 years we have been married, gone to do the grocery shopping without him so he can push the trolley for me and not have to load the car on my own. He also takes our two beautiful Siberian husky's for a walk every second night and takes Nevaeh in the baby Bjorn so I have a peaceful 40 minutes alone.

There is so much more he does on a daily basis and I could go on and on. I feel that I don't praise him enough for the love and support he gives Nevaeh and I so when I saw this competition it looked like the perfect way to give him the acknowledgment he deserves.

I am the luckiest woman alive and I know it! (He doesn't know I’m entering him in this comp cause he would never want the attention)"

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What a sensational entry, Aphrodite! Yep, you are very lucky but judging by Marlon's efforts it's clear he thinks he's very lucky as well. And another baby on it's way! Would love to have an update and a pic for the website when he or she arrives.

• The cut off date for entries is approaching fast (September 12). If you are an entrant who has yet to get their Mentally Sexy Photo back to me I’d really appreciate it if you could email that through as soon as possible.
• Are you a Mentally Sexy Dad? Is your partner a Mentally Sexy Dad? If you think you have what it takes to win the Australian title, enter yourself or your partner/husband by sending your Mentally Sexy Spiel here. Due to the time limitations, there won't be a chance to post out any Mentally Sexy Clothing for photos. So make sure you include a picture, that displays you at your Mentally Sexiest, with your entry.
• Thanks to everyone who has joined the Mentally Sexy Fan Page. It continues to grow. Join here if you haven’t already and spread the word to all your friends andfamily.