Licensure and Regulation Lucy Peters objects to any kind of regulation. She claims that the worst electrologists come from states that license electrologists. There is an establishment in electrolysis that would prefer to maintain the status quo that was set up 50 years ago. The curriculum in most of the licensed states was written in the 1940s. . . . Look, if you are a hairdresser or barber, you have to have some sort of certification.
Most people do it badly.
In my opinion, it ought to be regulated. Electrolysis practitioner Jennifer Dunn, R.N., states that, because of the prevalence of such diseases as AIDS and hepatitis, electrologists should be licensed. Not many people do that, but they could. In New Jersey last year, we got an advisory committee under the existing medical board. That's all we want. . . .