'I don't consider a cup performance; I consider it a test': masculinity and the medicalisation of XXXX .

@entity1 @entity249
UNASSIGNED: Researchers have deemed medicalisation a 'gendered' theory, yet the incorporation of @entity1 and masculinity in medicalisation literature is sparse. Recently, however, medicalisation scholarship has begun studying @entity1 . This burgeoning literature heavily emphasises sexuality and is beginning to focus on medicalised masculinities in which traits associated with masculinity are deemed a health risk. Such research has demonstrated how masculinities shape @entity1 's lived experiences of health, but how does health itself shape masculinity? I explore this question using the case of @entity249 . Through thirty in-depth interviews, I find that @entity1 use medicine as a way to achieve rather than diminish their sense of masculinity in the feminised context of reproduction. By perpetuating the stereotype that @entity249 is a @entity1 's problem, the medical establishment has caused @entity1 to not necessarily see themselves as infertile. Additionally, even if @entity1 do claim the @entity249 status, they do not perceive it as negative. The legitimating effects of medicalisation objectify the ailment and separate its connection with sexuality. In centring @entity1 's voices, the study not only reveals @entity1 as active players in the reproductive process, but also incorporates them into understandings of medicalisation.
