![]() ![]() “In order to have long hair you have to be healthy,” he says. Stenn, a former professor of pathology and dermatology at Yale who was also the director of skin biology at Johnson & Johnson, believes that health is perhaps the root cause of hair’s significance. “Inferences and judgments about a person’s morality, sexual orientation, political persuasion, religious sentiments and, in some cultures, socio-economic status,” she notes, “can sometimes be surmised by seeing a particular hairstyle.” The scholar Deborah Pergament has written that hair’s cultural and historic implications can be legally significant. It can be an expression of individual and group identity, and the the more attention a person (often a woman) is expected to devote to it, the more it can say. ![]() Hair is highly communicative, says Stenn, allowing individuals to send “messages of health, sexuality, religiosity, power” on first glance. ![]()
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