Talk:Delayed puberty

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1 Reference
2 Height
3 Health effects?
4 Merge with sexual infantilism

[edit] Reference

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This article needs some type of reference, added tag. --FloNight 22:57, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Height

Adult height reached 14.5y

I doubt that's true. My sister was 5'1" 1/2 at 15, now she's 19 and 5'3". Uhhhh? ― LADY GALAXY ★彡 ^{Refill^/^{lol 21:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)}}

[edit] Health effects?

Could the article go into whether or not this would be considered healthier or less healthy? Obviously abnormal but sometimes abnormalities can be beneficial. Obviously there are mechanical advantages to growth and maturation but they are not as important in a society that values mental qualities. I am wondering if you compare someone who took longer to mature to someone who took normal (or faster) how their health would compare, how it would compare to metabolism and lifespan and so forth. I know aging and maturation are separate processes occuring over time but even so there are no doubt metabolic alterations inherant to maturation which do affect the metabolic contributors to aging entropy. Tyciol 07:16, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with sexual infantilism

I think it would be beneficial to merge the sexual_infantilism article with the more established delayed puberty article. The former article starts by describing sexual infantilism as delayed puberty ("Sexual infantilism ... i.e., delayed puberty"). The delayed puberty article has a four year history; has had multiple, substantial contributors; and is actively improving. BitterGrey (talk) 03:59, 11 June 2008 (UTC)