Are homosexuals fully mature or somehow immature ?
451405
depends on the individual...no one can be judged whether they are mature/immature based on what gender they prefer...
417620
just be careful how mature you go
329172
means that the person isnt mature yet
366734
Of course you can. People can be any age and be gay, just like people can be homicidal maniacs when they're only 4. People are born with all kinds of different mental disorders and homosexuality is just one of them.
692085
I am assuming you are referring to a homosexual relationship for teens with a person over 18. The teens are not emotionally developed or morally strong. They may know that sex is wrong without a serious relationship, or with someone old enough to know that teens aren't old enough, but may not want to disappoint the adult. I find adults that persue teens ill. There are those who claim they "love" someone, but it's the same for a teenage girl, wait until you are 18 then you can make up your mind. A boy of 13 is that, a boy. Males mature alot slower that females, so they should make it 21 for males for emotional reasons. My son had his first gay experience at 15 with another 15 year old. That was two boys on the same emotional level, not a man manipulating the experience.
1045119
Sexual promiscuity has little to do with 'mature'.\n\nLocal and states are raising the drinking age, kids not driving at night with their peers, postponing driving, extending drivers' learning permit times.\n\nKids are getting married later, not working on the farm like the 'adults' did. Playing all day on X-box or watching movies, daddy buying cars, etc.\n\nAnd this is 'more mature'. - maturity starts in the mind, not the body.
624619
no, not at all.  it's perfectly normal and natural.  in fact, some studies show that most people are bisexual to some extent, and only very few are either entirely gay or entirely straight all their lives.  (this includes actions and fantasies.)
275689
It makes immature people uncomfortable, because all they think about are the "acts" of a gay person. Then some decide to hide behind scripture as a defense for there intolerance. For the record, if you believe the same god powerful enough to create the entire universe cares what two adults do in the privacy of there own bedroom as long as there not hurting anyone else, you need to reevaluate your spiritual priorities.
714311
I do not think its an apt comparison. There are homosexual celibates and homosexual virgins. If I woke up and wasn't homosexual, I would feel I had lost part of my identity and wouldn't know who I was.
1106320
i think they are immature in the area of intimacy... they are fulfilling a physical need and an emotional coverup but not their spiritual need.\nThat empty hole they feel just keeps getting bigger and the self esteem becomes damaged when continuing down that path. stop! and get to the root of the problem before going further.
1094811
I haven't found a pattern. It may be true that intelligent people will have less problem accepting their sexuality and less intelligent people will probably feel they have to hide it. Or they won't have the elements it takes to understand that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual. So they still are homosexual, but they repress it. I do think it's a trait of intelligence to assume your sexuality.
285330
In the US, homosexuals are, on average, more intelligent than heterosexuals.  This translates into higher median incomes.  Also, most homosexuals do not have families to support; they are generally single.
171715
Sexual maturity is dependent on physiological things like hormones. Being an athlete has nothing to do with it.
382583
While your question is a good one and I praise you for asking it, I would like to address the ramifications if it is openly approved.\n\nThey say they are "born that way".  That simply is not true.  Human sexuality starts mentally.  It is a choice.  God gave man free will.  Now, they want to redefine marriage that has meant between a man and woman for thousands of years.\n\nWhat if their rhetoric is used by child molesters, polygamists, and criminals who say they are born that way.  I will say one thing for them, the people who fornicate are no better.  The over indulgence in sexual perversion of every sort is an abomination.  It is this very thing that heterosexuals do that emboldened the homosexuals to come out.
27721
If you cut through all the PC crap, you will eventually come to a single, important truth: sexuality is way too complex to be solely the result of any single magic bullet.  Perhaps more importantly is that children are not born sexually mature, and hence the idea that they are born homosexual is as ridiculoius as the notion that they are born heterosexual.  They are born asexual in that they are not yet sexually mature.\n\nIt is PC to say that there is genetic determinism that makes a person be gay due to hard-wired mental functions from the genes.  This is absurd, because the "hard wires" of the brain aren't really that hard at all.  The brain in a newborn has many, many more synaptic connections than needed.  Throughout life, as we learn and develop more fully, these synapses are reduced in some places and increased in others.  The experiences of life, along with things like diet, make the brain develop as it does in complicated ways.\n\nThe fundamentalist tends to say that the matter is purely a matter of choice.  This is equally absurd.  While it is correct to say that a person is responsible for their actions, the desires, thoughts, and emoptions of the brain are not so easily controlled.  The brain does eventually wire itself in certain ways and it does lose flexibility as time progresses.  But the results are not purely choice.\n\nThe answer is somewhere in between.  There are differences in people's genetic makeup and developmental processes that make some people more strongly predisposed to certain sexaul tendencies, I'd expect.  But the experiences of life will always effect the ways in which the genes are expressed, and this is unavoidable.  Monozygotic twins have the exact same DNA as one another.  If one is a hemophylliac, the other one will also be, with absolute certainty.  The correlations for sexuality, though strong, are not 1:1 like this.  So there ahs to be something more than genes.  No one can positively identify what particular environmental cues or experiences or hormonal cascades are necessary for a given line of developing a particular sexuality, but the fact that we haven't elucidated the path does not in any way mean the path does not exist.
550992
I don't know. For one thing, at that stage in life, their bodies are still developing, and a lot of people go through stages of having crushes on BOTH genders. However, at that age, it's not like they're actually going to DO anything, so I don't see why they bother proclaiming themselves as bi or gay.  I mean, they probably get a small crush on someone of the same sex, so they jump to the conclusion that they're gay. And since it's almost becoming kind of trendy to be gay, they openly declare it, to get attention or whatever.\n\nI think that until you've actually finished developing physically and emotionally, there's no point in declaring yourself homosexual since it could just be a phase.
23402
I have met individuals of other cultures who were mature enough at 13.  On the other hand, I know some 40 something year olds who still behave like they should be learning about dating and relationships without the complications of sex.  Personally, I was married 17.  I do not recommend this for most other people.