It's Time to Talk About Gay Steroid Use

Contents:

• ANABOLIC STEROID E AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN LIVG ATRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: ASSOCIATNS WH MOGRAPHICS, BODY DISSATISFACTN, EATG DISORR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND QUALY OF LIFE
• STEROID USE GAY, BISEXUAL, AND NONINTIFIED MEN-WHO-HAVE-SEX-WH-MEN: RELATNS TO MASCULY, PHYSIL, AND MENTAL HEALTH
• FULL LENGTH ARTICLEANABOLIC STEROID E AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN LIVG ATRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: ASSOCIATNS WH MOGRAPHICS, BODY DISSATISFACTN, EATG DISORR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND QUALY OF LIFE
• SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BULLYG FOR BEG LABELED GAY OR BISEXUAL, AND STEROID E AMONG US ADOLCENT BOYS
• STEROID USE HIGHER AMONG GAY, BI TEENS
• USE OF ANABOLIC STEROIDS AND ASSOCIATED HEALTH RISKS AMONG GAY MEN ATTENDG LONDON GYMS
• FULL LENGTH ARTICLEANABOLIC STEROID E AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN LIVG ATRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: ASSOCIATNS WH MOGRAPHICS, BODY DISSATISFACTN, EATG DISORR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND QUALY OF LIFE
• GAY AND BISEXUAL TEENS MORE LIKELY TO USE STEROIDS

ANABOLIC STEROID E AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN LIVG ATRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: ASSOCIATNS WH MOGRAPHICS, BODY DISSATISFACTN, EATG DISORR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND QUALY OF LIFE

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STEROID USE GAY, BISEXUAL, AND NONINTIFIED MEN-WHO-HAVE-SEX-WH-MEN: RELATNS TO MASCULY, PHYSIL, AND MENTAL HEALTH

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Tom of Fland and morn bodybuildg ensured mcle would stay gay vogue for years. Anabolic steroid e among gay and bisexual men livg Atralia and New Zealand: Associatns wh mographics, body dissatisfactn, eatg disorr psychopathology, and qualy of life. Gay and bisexual men may be at heightened risk for g anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS).

FULL LENGTH ARTICLEANABOLIC STEROID E AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN LIVG ATRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: ASSOCIATNS WH MOGRAPHICS, BODY DISSATISFACTN, EATG DISORR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND QUALY OF LIFE

Few studi, however, have examed AAS e among gay and bisexual men livg untri outsi the Uned Stat. Th, we examed the associatns of AAS e, and of thoughts about g AAS, wh body image, eatg disorr symptoms, and qualy of life among gay and bisexual men livg Atralia and New Zealand.

A sample of 2733 gay and bisexual men pleted an onle survey promoted by paid natnwi advertisements to ers of geosocial-workg smartphone applitns.

SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BULLYG FOR BEG LABELED GAY OR BISEXUAL, AND STEROID E AMONG US ADOLCENT BOYS

Psychopathology related to body image and eatg disorrs are associated wh AAS e among gay and bisexual men livg Atralia and New Zealand. Anabolic steroids; Body image; Eatg disorrs; Gay and bisexual men; LGBTQ; Sexual orientatn. The CASTRO study: Unsafe sexual behavrs and illic dg e among gay and bisexual men who e anabolic steroids.

Body Image and Eatg Disorrs Among Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Youth.

Sourc of knowledge and tth related to anabolic/androgenic steroid e among two-spir, gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex wh men. A cross-sectnal study of gay, bisexual, and other nongay-intified men-who-have-sex-wh-men (MSM) was unrtaken New York Cy.

STEROID USE HIGHER AMONG GAY, BI TEENS

The fdgs suggt that although steroid e this sample of this populatn is not wispread, e may be timately lked to health, mental health, and psychosocial stat that characterize the gay muny at large. Bisexualdg egaymasculysteroidsGenr StudiSocial PsychologyApplied PsychologyLife-span and Life-urse Studi.

rights and ntentAbstractBackground and aimsGay and bisexual men may be at heightened risk for g anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS). MethodsA sample of 2733 gay and bisexual men pleted an onle survey promoted by paid natnwi advertisements to ers of geosocial-workg smartphone applitns. ConclnsPsychopathology related to body image and eatg disorrs are associated wh AAS e among gay and bisexual men livg Atralia and New Zealand.

USE OF ANABOLIC STEROIDS AND ASSOCIATED HEALTH RISKS AMONG GAY MEN ATTENDG LONDON GYMS

IntroductnInternatnal rearch shows that gay and bisexual men report disproportnately higher rat of alhol and illic substance e pared to their heterosexual unterparts (McCabe et al., 2009, Rter et al., 2012, Roxburgh et al., 2016, Saxton et al., 2017). (2016) note, this discrepancy may reflect the role that alhol and illic substance e has gay and bisexual male muni (e.

G., a higher level of acceptance and ‘normalisatn’; to maximise pleasure the ntext of sexual activy), or the elevated social strs gay and bisexual muni due to stigmatisatn om the broar muny.

The reasons, however, may not fully acunt for other typ of substanc such as anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), for which evince suggts gay and bisexual men also report higher levels of e, and which are typilly ed for athetic-related are synthetic rivativ of ttosterone wh var medil , cludg the treatment of male hypogonadism and mcle wastg related to HIV/AIDS.

FULL LENGTH ARTICLEANABOLIC STEROID E AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN LIVG ATRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: ASSOCIATNS WH MOGRAPHICS, BODY DISSATISFACTN, EATG DISORR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND QUALY OF LIFE

Early studi om the Uned Kgdom and Atralia showed high levels of AAS e among sampl of gay and bisexual men reced om gyms and fns centr. 5% of their sample of gay men were current AAS ers, while their later study found that 15.

More recent rearch om the Uned Stat g a siar samplg methodology found that 10% of gay men reported AAS e (Ip et al., 2017).

High school stunts, Blashill and Saen (2014) revealed a lifetime AAS e prevalence of 21% among gay and bisexual adolcent boys pared to 4% among heterosexual boys. It has been suggted that soccultural factors wh the gay and bisexual muny may generate tragroup prsure to obta an ialized mcular figure (McCreary et al., 2007), and this prsure may lead to men engagg AAS e. Other rearch has examed whether outgroup prsur may ntribute to higher rat of AAS e among gay and bisexual men.

GAY AND BISEXUAL TEENS MORE LIKELY TO USE STEROIDS

For example, Parent and Bradstreet (2017) hypothised that bullyg based on beg labelled gay or bisexual would be associated wh an creased likelihood of AAS e among adolcent boys, but found this pattern only amongst heterosexual date, there has been ltle rearch explorg AAS e wh gay and bisexual men, and ltle rearch that explor e wh a sample reced om the broar muny.

As such, the aim of this study was to asss predictors of AAS e among a sample of muny-based gay and bisexual men, focg on associatns wh body image and eatg disorr psychopathology.

Sectn snippetsProcrePaid advertisements that requted unpaid volunteers for “a study of body image and body change behavurs” were dissemated natnwi to ers of a popular geo-social workg smartphone applitn ('app') that ters exclively to gay and bisexual men.