a study in the journal Pediatrics finds that gay and bisexual teen boys
use steroids at an alarming rate in fact six times more likely
then straight up boys and it just to give you some numbers out the raid
elicit steroids among gay or bisexual boys is almost six times higher
then straight teen boys up now those who have said to have used steroids
21 percent gay or bisexual teens versus 4 percent of stray teams
when it comes to taking steroid pills or injections up to 40 times its
eight-percent
gay or bisexual teens purse is less than two percent
up straight teens and when it comes to taking steroid pills or injections
over forty times it's four percent gay or bisexual teens verses 1 percent up
straight teens
so this is I'm pretty alarming evidence of it happening and I should also
remind you guys that this is based on self-reporting so the numbers could
actually be higher
among i gay and bisexual teens but
you know I remember having a discussion about this with Dave Rubin who host the
ribbon report today made the point that you know
growing up gay or bisexual you get bullied
and and people question your masculinity all the time they could eat
say your sissy and so you overcompensate by that
or for that by taking steroids or by working out
up excessively so you look like you know your you're stronger and all that
and I thought that was a really interesting hypothesis obviously we have
no way of proving that it's more speculation than anything else I mean
there is a way we just don't have the money to run the study record certainly
investigate that that's what's so great about science can dampen
but I am yet know that that's that's an interesting explanation it's probably
true but what do you think about the other
explanation we talked about I don't remember the other explanation got so I
don't remember exactly we propose this but they I think it might
my dancing but I'm not gonna put words in his mouth he said that it's probably
combination of that but also it has to do with
what some of the differences between men and women that that men tend to be more
visual in nature they want to see attractive things and so
if you if you have two guys that double as much
so they want to see attractive game and a man want them to be attracted
so there might be more pressure that a straight male would feel when trying to
attract women
got back to me another reason to love heart a bit but I think that that's
interesting yeah I think both explanations are really interesting
but I think about my I mean I like to see nice things
but I like muscles like what
yeah no but I don't know why I didn't
the Android no but I do here do you think you'll a sure that we're just
we're just speculating
and not only that I mean we've had these discussions over and over again on the
show where women are more likely to
you know deal with certain physical appearances the
aren't appealing if the guy is smart or funny or clever men are a little
different words like
who's the hottest girl has a bit I want nobody answer something like that
to soaking anyway but more importantly so we speculate about reasons but more
importantly
is we have to do something about this because I mean especially in this group
when they're dealing with a lot of like bowling and things like that a lot of
pressure they don't necessarily understand everything about themselves
to try to learn
like this is not the time to be experimenting with with incredibly
dangerous drugs like
steroids for instance his neck caffeine this can have major long-term impact on
your body
and and I'm shy I feel like I remember being
told at least a little bit about steroids in high school but clearly they
need to do a better job
because these people are potentially harming himself absolutely and just to
give you a sense of what steroids can do to you
I mean it makes you more aggressive it makes you your to ball for
firm and it leads to breast growth
which spots per cheese that doesn't sound fun
doesn't sound fun so we should we should educate our youth
and you know hopefully you know with more education
and more acceptance in the gay community you know that that pressure to be
masculine
if that is one of the reasons why they feel pressure to do this
well we'll go away