(Sue Lyons as 12 year old 'Lolita')The novel "Lolita" has been adapted to film twice, once in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick starring James Mason as Humbert Humbert, with Sue Lyon as Lolita,(she was 14 - he 40 something) and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, starring Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert, and Dominique Swain as Lolita.
The name "Lolita" has entered pop culture to describe a sexually precocious young girl.
The story of "Lolita" describes the intimate relationship of a man in his 50's with a 12 year old girl described as a "Nymphet" .
A nymphet is seen to be a sexually precocious, attractive girl, and was notably used by French author Pierre de Ronsard, and popularised by Vladimir Nabokov in the novel Lolita. In Lolita, protagonist Humbert Humbert uses it to describe the 9-14-year-old girls to whom he is attracted. In today's popular press the term is sometimes applied to women in their late teens or early twenties.
Little Deadly Demons: Nymphets, sexuality and a North American girl-child by Kellie Dawson
Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author into Russian and published in 1958 in New York.
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