Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Gilbert Herdt

Born: February 24, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: Gilbert H. Herdt is Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and a Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies and National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University.
Known for:
- The Sambia : ritual and gender in New Guinea (1987)
- Guardians of the flutes (1981)
- Sambia sexual culture (1999)
- Human Sexuality: Self, Society and Culture (2013)