Here ya go (now, this may hurt a little):
Posted on 11/18/2011 6:46:48 AM PST by Borges
Why wouldn’t it be? It’s an American classic and not explicit at all.
Sure agree with you on that. watched it once and said I’ll bet the audience is 99% pedophiles...should be taken off the TV. And the parents are just sick and perverted also
Most people have only seen the movies. I also read the book and was quite disgusted.
I look at that picture and all I can think about is sex slavery. Eastern European and American teenagers locked in dark rooms forced to service men.
Is the 1880 age of consent in Delaware 7 or 17? I thought the 10’s were bad enough, but gross, eww WTF.
My great-grandmother married at eleven.
Good grief. What a warped mind it must have been which conceived of such an ad.
Disgusted by what? The book has no sex scenes!
There is no sex in the book? It is all about a friendly relationship, not about having sex with her?
And that makes it OK? Rape is OK, if the rapist shows delicacy in discussing his multiple rapes?
Who said it’s OK? It’s a work of fiction about an immoral, semi-crazed man. No different than Macbeth or Crime and Punishment.
The Victorian crybabies in our society have got this whole thing out of whack. A 22 year old male can get 15 years in prison for having consensual sex with a 15 year old sex pot, but a man can get his teeth knocked out, his skull fractured and permanently disabled by a thug who gets 90 days.
For my part, I am sick and tired of hearing about how girls who have been pubescent and sexually active for years are “raped” by an older boyfriend. And, a woman assaulted by a stranger in her privates is no more injured in my opinion than any other serious assault victim.
Suck it up ladies. Your privates are no more important than any other serious injury. And, a person having consensual sex with a 15 year old maybe should get a pay out ticket, maybe.
“No different than Macbeth or Crime and Punishment.”
Those two works have a moral viewpoint. Lolita was written without one.
The deaths in Macbeth and C&P were not written to stimulate murderers. Lolita was written, IMHO, to stimulate pedophiles.
“Your privates are no more important than any other serious injury.”
Thank God you are a weirdo.
It certainly was not. I don’t know if you’ve read it but the pedophile character goes to jail and dies there - he ruins his life via his obsession.
And most perverts would be bored by this text which is allusive and not remotely pornographic. It deals with a rather large number of things of which pedophilia is far from the most important. It is not the fault of this great novel that it has been abused and mistreated by pop culture hacks (who have mostly never read it). For what it’s worth, Nabokov was a conservative, a friend of William F Buckley and married to the same woman for almost 50 years. Lolita was intended as a love letter to the U.S. (his adopted country) and the English language (his adopted language).
Exactly.
“Those two works have a moral viewpoint. Lolita was written without one.
The deaths in Macbeth and C&P were not written to stimulate murderers. Lolita was written, IMHO, to stimulate pedophiles.”
That you found this classic stimulative to pedophiles tells us more about you than it does about the work.
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