What Mature Means

The other day I was sitting at work looking at various articles on Yahoo news when I came across an article about Justin Bieber's new music video.  I watched the video and then read the article and was a little disturbed by the way maturity is perceived through the eyes of the media.  In the article it talked about how Justin is getting older and how this is his first post teen music video.  It also said how this video showed how much he was growing and showed more maturity than his other music videos.  After watching the video all I saw that was different from his other videos was that it was more suggestive and sensual.  I find it a little disappointing that the media is constantly labeling maturity as being more openly immoral.  It is no wonder that teenagers who want to appear more mature become sexually active.  To me this shows more immaturity than anything if you think sex is what makes you mature.  It's discouraging seeing this kind warped definition of maturity becoming more and more prevalent in our society.