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Originally Posted by Matata
I'm sort of familiar, just read the plot on wiki to refresh my memory and I don't think I'd have the stomach to read the whole thing. As I understand it, it presents the love affair between a middle aged man and a 12 year girl as a natural and organic thing and has gone on to be the most identifiable cornerstone of pedo culture. 1955 France is a pretty different time and place, and I can see how the book is a relic of a fringe idea of sexuality from that time and now reads as a monstrous thing in a modern context. Given how synonymous it's become with pedo culture, I would assume the book has done tremendous harm over the years as it can provide a path and justification for pedos to act on their urges.
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I think that people mis-interpret that book when it comes to the relationship between Humbert and Dolores and the movies don't go as deep into that relationship.
But Humbert was a creepy obsessive, he bribed Dolores for sexual favors and she eventually broke away and fled and was a damaged woman in the end, and Humbert was going to prison for murdering the man that got her away from him.
The movies had a different sense and feel to them as they almost portrayed Dolores as a femme fatale young seductress.
The Sue Lyon movie was a huge rewrite and left out the parts that showed that Humbert was a creepy pedo through his whole life and became a teacher so he could groom young girls.
The 1997 book really focused on Dominique Swain as an overly sexualized seductress.
I read Lolita as part of a reading assignment in University and nowhere did I see it as true Pedo positive if that's a term or pedo porn.