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Anabolic Steroids
WTF? Why is there such a worldwide hatred for steroids?
- Thread starter Bigoldguy
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Because it is an easy moral grandstand victory for politicians and people love villainizing things.
I agree, but there is so much other shit...more people are killed by drunks that died by steroids and yet no one seems to be waging a huge campaign worldwide about booze.
Because governments make billions from tax revenue on it.
Alert_Custard
Member
Because some people see roid heads as a threat.
Also a lot of people like to stick their heads in stuff that are none of their business.
Also a lot of people like to stick their heads in stuff that are none of their business.
sinistral
Member
Can't discount the masculinity of it all either. At least in the west.
Ghoul
Member
For the same reasons so many (diminishing every day thankfully) despise GLPs.
"Cheating" biology, in their minds.
"Cheating" biology, in their minds.
sinistral
Member
Doubtful. Strong men, both physically and mentally, present a problem to governments.
Ghoul
Member
Do you think appetite is the same for everyone, and that one of the most potent behavior influencing biological drives can't become dysregulated?
One could equally argue steroid use is to compensate for an unwillingness to exercise the discipline needed to eat more chicken breast and add more plates.
Dont totally agree here...I believe that we have become an instant gratification society. No, appetite isnt the same for everyone but the majority of people using glps for weight arent doing it as a lifestyle/eating modifier, but as a fix for a shit lifestyle/eating habit. How many times do you hear "I lost weight and didnt have to change a thing on this stuff."
And, yes, there are folks who try to use steroids for a quick muscle fix, but they get no where. Put enough gas in a car to go 300 miles and itll go 300 miles. Add a turbo charger to it and itll go that same 300 miles faster but still only go 300 miles. Gear is the same, you only get out what you put in through the basics: eat, lift, rest.
Just an opinion.
aljowa
Member
Let's not forget about the multi-national corporate conglomerates whose subsidiaries manufacture and sell alcohol to the tune of billions in revenue, giving them immense financial power to influence legislation via lobbying and direct political campaign donations to legislators, who in turn will then ensure that alcohol laws will not be tightened or restricted. And let's not even get into the public relations and mass-marketing campaigns manufactured by these corporations to normalize and romanticize alcohol consumption from an impressionable young age to adulthood.
Or to just put it in a less nuanced way that a child can understand: because a lot of people make a lot of money off of it, and want to continue to do so. Lol.
aljowa
Member
It's fixin' to get dark soon, let's pitch a tent...
glpfun
Member
The anabolic steroid acts in the US were bipartisan and voted in unanimously. I know you mentioned other countries but just goes to show how united people seem to be in their hate for steroids. They make it a morality play about fairness. The bigger stronger faster doc covers a lot of these things. Sentiment is changing though….
Whey protein and creatine are next. Stock up, lmao.
journals.plos.org
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/muscle-building-supplements-may-put-teens-at-risk-for-a-body-image-disorder-study-finds/ar-AA1zojqZMuscle-building supplement use is associated with muscle dysmorphia symptomatology among Canadian adolescents and young adults
This study investigated the association between muscle-building supplement use and muscle dysmorphia symptomatology among Canadian adolescents and young adults. Data from the Canadian Study of Adolescent Health Behaviors (N = 2,731) were analyzed. Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses...
Slowww
Member
Definitely is not world wide. There are plenty of countries that accept steroid use, or do not stigmatize and it is legal. Of course cultural, legal and political differences exist between different places and people so the treatment of anabolics and hormones vary
urmumsurdad30
Member
I agree, definitely not worldwide. Where I'm from, I wouldn't call it commonplace but its not shunned upon as well.
aljowa
Member
Whey protein and creatine are next. Stock up, lmao.
Code:https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/muscle-building-supplements-may-put-teens-at-risk-for-a-body-image-disorder-study-finds/ar-AA1zojqZ
Muscle-building supplement use is associated with muscle dysmorphia symptomatology among Canadian adolescents and young adults
This study investigated the association between muscle-building supplement use and muscle dysmorphia symptomatology among Canadian adolescents and young adults. Data from the Canadian Study of Adolescent Health Behaviors (N = 2,731) were analyzed. Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses...
"Findings warrant further investigation and the development of intervention strategies to decrease the use of increasingly normalized muscle-building supplements and muscle dysmorphia symptomatology."
Lol. This study abstract is phrased in a way that almost implies an individual's use of "muscle-building supplements" plays a causative role in developing body dysmorphia. As if some poor soul just happens to buy creatine on a whim while walking through a supplement aisle and two weeks later their previously mundane life is thrown into chaos and disrepair as they battle this psychological demon of body dysmorphia that they unwittingly summoned.
Peel the layers back. Why do teens seek these "muscle-building supplements" in the first place? Probably largely because they have an intense desire to achieve an aesthetic standard that is presented to them via marketing and media in order to cope with deep-rooted underlying insecurities. Why do they have these specific insecurities in the first place?
Let's take a trip back to Marketing 101:
1. Instill into the consumer that they are lacking in something (physical, material, mental, emotional, etc) that is vital to their worth and happiness, thereby fabricating an insecurity.
2. Reinforce this insecurity through repeated exposure to subtle variations of this message.
3. Present to the consumer a product that will negate this internalized insecurity and alleviate their anguish, thereby converting the product that would otherwise be a superficial "want" into an existential "need."
4. Allow the consumer to give you their money in exchange for your product.
5. Rinse and repeat.
6. Bonus points if you can create an industry of various products that all revolve around negating the fabricated insecurity
The underlying psychology is undoubtedly orders of magnitude more complex than my simplistic breakdown, and marketing is certainly not the sole causative factor, but perceived societal pressure and insecurity are very likely major factors, which are at the very least exploited and amplified by marketing. After all, marketing is just psychological manipulation at its fundamental core. That is the principle that makes it so effective, which is why it is a billion-dollar enterprise that companies pour millions of their revenue into. To be more specific, marketing is psychological manipulation motivated by profit.
Or, to just skip the boring stuff and get straight to the answer of why they have these insecurities in the first place, and why they are exploited: if you'll excuse my douchebaggery in quoting my own post, the reason is...
