No pain, no gain: sobre a pseudo restrição da lei 9965/00.

Abstract

The increasing importance that is given to body image in the last decades has driven humans to pay intensified attention to body aesthetics, as seen by the proliferation of body care techniques and management, such as diets, bodybuilding and aesthetic surgeries. Men and women invest more and more of their time, energy and financial resources in the consumption of services and good related to the building and maintenance of body image. In parallel to the body cult, the use of the so-called „body image drugs‟ is rising, with anabolic steroids among these drugs. Thus, the present empiric study leans towards the following research question: what would be the relation between legislative effort/production and the social „gain‟ of trying to restrict the right of anabolic steroid usage? „No pain, no gain?‟ For this purpose, adaptations of the social sciences inference rules were used, aligned to the methodologic ideas of Epstein and King (2013), consistent in the use of known data for learning of the unknown. Primary and secondary data was gathered and later systematized in charts. Therefore, the conclusion drawn from the gathered data, read from Bankowski‟s perspective, is that however big the legislative effort/production has been, the use of anabolic steroids for aesthetic purposes will remain an issue, and that the reason behind the use of these substances escapes the understanding or possibility of restriction by legal standards.