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The Damaging Effect of Steroids on Women
Steroids
are basically performance aids that people take to improve their
athletic performance, certain athletes, sports personnel and
bodybuilders take steroids, even though it is a banned substance, and
while the side effects for both men and women can be detrimental to
their over all health, when comparing the side effects between the
sexes, women suffer more. The main reason women should not take steroids
is that the results that are gained from steroids lead to a very
unfeminine form. The majority of female bodybuilders, who have developed
their physique using steroids, look rather gnarly, even manish. These
women on develop huge and vein-striated muscles with grainy skin and a
wide jaw. In addition to a change in the exterior appearance of the
women, steroids tend to change a woman's voice, making it deeper and
more masculine. In a bid to copy men and train like them, women take
steroids, that consist primarily of the male hormone testosterone and
practically turn into men, losing their own femininity.
Steroids
are not meant to be taken by women as a woman's genetics are not meant
for male hormones. There are many side effects that are associated with
a woman taking steroids. With steroids, the normal cycle of a woman's
menstrual cycle is hampered and leads to spotting and irregular stopping
of the cycle all together. With the introduction of extra testosterone,
because believe it or not women do contain small amounts of testosterone
naturally, they start to develop male physical characteristics, such as
more pronounced jaw muscles, hair in places that women traditionally
don't have hair and as discussed before, deeper voices, and perhaps the
most disturbing change is the development of a small penis that develops
from clitoral enlargement and is another irreversible side effect. Also
women who grow unwanted hair have to deal with ridding the body of
excessive hair in the chin, buttocks, chest, the anus, nipples and inner
glutes, just to hide their new male qualities, because let's just face
it a hairy butt on a woman is unnatural and if a female
bodybuilder showed up at a competition with a hairy butt, the judges
would know that she was taking steroids. Increased hair growth is a
result of hirsutism, which is also irreversible. With more masculine
features, like the widening of the jaw, a once beautiful woman may
suddenly turn into a very masculine looking drag queen. In addition to
all of these physical changes, women taking steroids also develop
emotional changes because of the drugs consumed.
Another
important aspect and reason that women should not take steroids is the
intimate behavioral changes that occur. The physical and psychological
changes a woman goes through can be compromised; it is when androgyny
sets in that things become difficult. With androgyny, the normal
heterosexual woman experiences changes and even starts behaving and
thinking like a man. Such women tend to become aggressive, with the
aggression being mitigated through the presence of testosterone in the
body. With confused brains, they tend to start fights, shout out at
everyone and tend to lose their temper for no reason at all. With
testosterone, the women also tend to experience sexual aggression where
they become very horny and aggressive. They become so horny that even
after a heavy workout they still need sex several times a day.
With
steroids, women tend to suffer from stomach distension where the lower
abdomen gets irritated and swollen. With this, there is chronic
constipation, intestinal gas and water retention. Vaginal discharge
tends to increase which can be irritating. The body odor of the woman
increases where the woman tends to smell rather pungent, and while
accepting all of these conditions, it is highly possible that the woman
may undergo feelings of depression, and upon stopping steroids,
the rebound of estrogen leads to apathy, fatigue and extreme depression.
All women
undergo changes with the consumption of drugs and no woman is immune to
the side effects of steroids. It is just that some woman tend to suffer
from more and stronger side effects while others suffer less. In fact
some women deny the fact that steroids have side effects though these
side effects are irreversible, very much undesirable and tolerated for
no reason at all. So it can be seen that though steroids help develop
muscles in a woman, it tends to rid the woman of her femininity. It can
be thus seen that taking steroids is not advisable, as there is no
promise of a victory in bodybuilding but rather a promise in
irreversible, unpleasant side effects.
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