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When I first encountered the literary classic Lolita, I was the same age as the infamous female character. I was 15 and had heard about a book in which a grown man carries on a sexual relationship with a much younger girl. Naturally, I quickly sought out the book and devoured the entire contents on my bedroom floor, parsing through Humbert Humbert‘s French and his erotic fascination for his stepdaughter, the light of his life, the fire of his loins — Dolores Haze. I remember being in the ninth grade and turning over the cover that presented a coy pair...

[SNIP] Gennette was not the only young attractive woman who made it on Rep. Weiner’s select list. More than 45,000 people followed Rep. Anthony Weiner on twitter. He followed only 198. Here are a few of the people Rep. Weiner looked to for his news and entertainment… But mostly entertainment. [SNIP]

This is one way to earn a "Not cool, Dad..." comment from your daughter: Talk about her new braces while giving a speech. But President Barack Obama did just that Thursday while delivering remarks in Kansas City at a fundraiser for Senate candidate Robin Carnahan. "You know, the — I don't have teenagers yet — Malia's just turned 12," said Obama, according to a pool report. "She's my baby. She's going — even though she's 5'9" now, she's still my baby. And she just got braces, which is good, because she looks like a kid and she was getting —...

The Long Island Lolita is all grown up now and she's traded her prison garb for stripper's lingerie. Amy Fisher, who has gone from teenage other-woman-shooter to prison wench to writer, will dance at an Independence Day weekend show at the Déjà Vu strip club.

If Dolores Haze and Humbert Humbert were alive today, she would be 73, he 98, and that 25-year age difference wouldn't mean a thing. But 50 years ago this month, (8/18/1958) when Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was first published in the United States, its tale of a 37-year-old man obsessed with a 12-year-old girl was such a scandal that its title character's name entered the language as shorthand for a seductive teenager. Poor Lo. Always misrepresented. Nabokov's Lolita is nothing like the bottle-blond, lollipop-licking sex kitten played by Sue Lyon in the 1962 film directed by Stanley Kubrick (who, as was...

The media's relentless pimping of young girls is profitable — and destructive.

Mummy's little Lolita: The 11-year-old girl whose beauty treatments cost £300 a month to make her look like Barbie By Jenny Johnston Last updated at 5:31 PM on 05th July 2008 She wore her first set of false eyelashes at eight, and her beauty treatments cost £300 a month. A sick abuse of an 11-year-old? 'No', insists Sasha's mother, 'I just want her to be famous...' At 11, Sasha Bennington is too young to remember the days when Jordan was just a country and being branded 'fake' was something to be ashamed of. But maybe the youngster's biggest tragedy is...

A 34-year-old Italian man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl has had his sentence cut by a two-thirds because a court decided there was "real love" between the pair. Antonio de Pascale, a butcher from Vicenza, admitted that he had a four-month long relationship with the girl, who sent him a stream of torrid text messages on his mobile phone. His lawyers argued, however, that there was a "deep tenderness" between him and the girl and that he had "fallen head over heels in love" after a sexual encounter in his car. They said the girl had consented to...

LONDON (Feb. 1) - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named "Lolita" and designed for 6-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens. Woolworths said staff who administer the Web site selling the beds were not aware of the connection. In "Lolita," a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, the narrator becomes sexually involved with his 12-year-old stepdaughter -- but Woolworths staff had not heard of the classic novel or two subsequent films based on it. Hence they saw nothing wrong with advertising the Lolita Midsleeper...

OCALA, Fla. -- A 50-year-old classic novel about forbidden love is shaking things up in Marion County. The controversy centers on the book "Lolita" and whether it's obscene under today's standards, WESH 2 News reported. "Lolita" is a famous novel full of pages and pages of sexually explicit material about pedophilia. "I believe that you, at least hypothetically, could read this book and consider it obscene," said Terry Blaes, of Dunnellon. She challenged the Marion County Commission to determine whether they should pull "Lolita" from public library shelves, as they have the right to do so. "I want you to...

view low speed video view hi speed videoWSBT) An Osceola police officer is on the wrong side of the law. Officer Ronald Lusk faces two felony counts of sexual misconduct with a minor. The allegations involve sexual acts with a 15-year-old girl. In court Monday the judge entered a not guilty plea to the charges on Lusk’s behalf. Court documents say Lusk initially denied having any sexual contact with the girl, who was 15 at the time. Lusk later admitted that he had engaged in sexual conduct with the girl beginning in the early summer of this year. He told...

OSCEOLA -- An Osceola police officer was arrested last week on felony charges relating to sexual acts he allegedly committed with a 15-year-old girl. Ronald Lusk, 50, was arraigned Monday on two felony counts of sexual misconduct with a minor and one misdemeanor count of furnishing alcohol to a minor. An investigation into Lusk's conduct began Thursday, when the girl's mother found her daughter drinking an alcoholic beverage and learned that Lusk had bought it for the girl. Officers later obtained the girl's diary, which described sexual activity between her and Lusk on Sept. 3 at his home in St....

We can say that Brazil is undergoing a revolutionary process because the history of the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores), and the left wing in Brazil, is the story of communist strategy in action. Those who know the communists can see what is happening. Those who do not know, see nothing. For them the revolution is invisible. And the more time passes, the stronger it becomes. Father Lula, Brazil's revolutionary leader In the Jan. 25 edition of O Globo - the greatest journal in Brazil - psychoanalyst Fernando Coutinho perceived that "Lula is using the same image as Tito and Stalin...

Exclusive: Pete Townshend's Thoughts on Pedophilia The Who's Pete Townshend has been arrested in Britain for suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children and of incitement to distribute indecent images of children, relating to research he claims to have been doing on the subject via the Internet. The Fox 411 has obtained an impassioned letter Townshend wrote and posted to his own Web site a year ago — and since deleted — which may or may not demonstrate that he was doing what he said he was doing. Titled "A Different Bomb," Townshend discusses his own difficult childhood...

Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene resigned after acknowledging he engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a teen-age girl, the newspaper said Sunday. In a note on the paper's front page, editor Ann Marie Lipinski said Greene, 55, acknowledged the sexual conduct with a girl in her late teens whom he met in connection with his column.