Final Web Essay: Steroids

For the web-essay, I am going to gather information about the use of steroids and how steroids play a part into beauty myth. I want to do this topic because I know some information about steroids and would like to further my knowledge of the substance so many people use on a daily basis. Also I want to know why people may take steroids, is it so they can perform better in the sport they play or want to enhance their body so they see themselves as more appealing to others or themselves. 

With both of these questions does it play into the beauty myth, that if people use steroids their sexual appeal will be enhanced. I believe that many people who use this substance do know the bad health effects of it but they do it because they may not be concerned with what will happen in the future but live in the present and want to look bigger, stronger, and all together more fit, which plays into the beauty myth. In the U.S., an individual more than likely does not go through a day without seeing ads directed to the body image and the pressure to look a particular way, one seems to be encouraged to purchase supplements in order to have a sexual appeal. 

From T.V. commercials, magazine ads, reality T.V. shows where everyone seems to have that perfect body, to walking into a convenient store, we are surrounded by body image. All of these influence beauty myth further. Throughout the quarter we have read and seen many different beauty myths. This topic, steroids, has not been touched on and I would like to find more information about them and if they truly do play into beauty myths. I am going to look at companies who advertise the use of body enhancement drugs and who produce these drugs. This topic interests me because it seems that our culture/society everyday is becoming self consumed with how we look rather than if we are healthy or not. When it really comes down to it, I feel as though people should be more concerned on whether they’re healthy or not than if they have a good looking body that has big muscles, tight abs, larger biceps and so on. 


http://www.raysahelian.com/steroid.html
^This website offers information on what legal steroids are, what they're used for, what the health effects are if they're abused and overall this site provides the basics of steroids. 


http://www.suppusa.com/
^This site provides information about the different types of steroids people can use to enhance their body, which steroids work and don't work, cost differences between different types of steroids, and how to take steroids, injections, oral spray, or nutritional supplements. 


http://www.narconon.ca/steroids.htm
^This is an alcohol and drug rehab website that gives information on health hazards, what steroids are, and the long term use of steroids


http://www.drugabuse.gov/infofacts/steroids.html
^This is another site that gives some more information about what steroids are, the health effects, long term use effects, how widespread steroid abuse is, the addictions that come with steroids.