Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Gilbert Herdt

Born: February 24, 1949 (age 76)
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)