The aim of this chapter is to explore the complexities of the anthropological gaze when confronted with the sexuality of the other, revealing how the desiring subjectivity of the anthropologist tends to be obscured within the codes of sexual communication established by ethnographic conventions. Despite this, there has been a notable lack of investigation into how the anthropologist’s own desire is implicated―how, through their gaze, the subjects of anthropological inquiry are continually transformed into objects of study and, at times, objects of desire. In this respect, the pages of Malinowski’s field diary are illuminating: they clearly show how dreamlike fantasies, memories, and autobiographical narratives are interwoven with erotic and aesthetic longing for the native subjects, thus offering a form of unconscious expression of repressed desire. By cross-referencing his private diary entries with his scientific texts, it becomes possible to demonstrate how the anthropological desire of the other―that is, the desire by which the other enters the realm of the sexual―continually intersects with the anthropological desire for the other―the desire to study them, as a sublimated form of erotic attraction to the other’s body, stemming from the embodied nature of anthropological practice.