ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the emerging complexity in the understanding of PED use and gender. It then concentration on PED users' narratives found on a Swedish online community called Flashback. The chapter explores how participants in this community learn about and negotiates the meanings of PED use and how such negotiations can be understood in terms of gender, masculinity and marginalization processes. It examines how PED use and online fitness communities sometimes challenge dominant regimes of masculinity and gender equality, and also how the positionality of the marginal and central must be understood as dynamic, contradictory, mutable and contextual. The chapter explores the kinds of symbolic language regarding drug use that are developed within the community, and how its use is continuously negotiated in terms of different notions of masculinity. It also focuses on doped masculinities in an online community, and discusses the role of digital media when it comes to shaping and questioning the experience of marginalization.
