ABSTRACT This article investigates how men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) describe their experiences of embodiment and masculinity, locating that analysis in the context of contemporary ‘makeover culture’ and the imperatives of self-transformation. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews we conducted with 60 men who inject PIEDs in Australia, our analysis suggests there is a pragmatic logic associated with PIED use that challenges much research concerning this population, which tends to pathologise men who use PIEDs as disordered in their relationship to their bodies and cultural norms of masculinity. We unpack how the men interviewed describe everyday practices of doing gender in the context of illicit drug use, the implications in normative understandings of maleness and masculinity, and how PIED consumption practices encouraged particular attention to working on the self. Our findings suggest that drug injecting practices can be understood as forms of self-transformation in makeover culture that have the potential to make new, unexpected possibilities for being in the world, and can inform harm reduction measures, including the de-stigmatisation of drug use more broadly.

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作为自我转变的男性表现和形象增强药物使用：在改造文化中锻炼

摘要 本文调查注射性能和形象增强药物 (PIED) 的男性如何描述他们的化身和阳刚之气的体验，将这种分析置于当代“改头换面文化”和自我转变的必要性的背景下。根据我们对澳大利亚 60 名注射 PIED 的男性进行的访谈的定性数据，我们的分析表明，PIED 使用存在一种务实的逻辑，这对有关该人群的许多研究提出了挑战，这些研究往往将使用 PIED 的男性病理化为他们的关系紊乱他们的身体和男性气质的文化规范。我们解开接受采访的男性如何描述在非法吸毒的背景下做性别的日常做法，对男性和男性气质的规范理解的影响，以及 PIED 消费实践如何鼓励对自我工作的特别关注。我们的研究结果表明，注射吸毒行为可以被理解为改造文化中的自我转化形式，它有可能为世界创造新的、意想不到的可能性，并可以为减少伤害措施提供信息，包括对吸毒的去污名化更广泛地。