Quote of the day
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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)