--- description: Widdows is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham and the author of Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Heather Widdows ## Heather Widdows Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Widdows is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham and the author of_ Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal_._ ## Heather Widdows Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jun 13, 2018 ### [Body Hair Is Natural. Society Thinking Otherwise Is Dangerous](https://time.com/5300646/body-hair-shaving-waxing-ethics-beauty/) There are insidious costs to constant hairlessness [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/heather-widdows/","name":"Heather Widdows"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/heather-widdows/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/heather-widdows/"},"name":"Heather Widdows","jobTitle":null,"description":"Widdows is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham and the author of Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal.","url":"https://time.com/author/heather-widdows/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```