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A '''nymphet''' is a sexually attractive [[girl]], or young woman. Also called a [[Lolita (term)|Lolita]]. |
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==Terms== |
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===Nymphet=== |
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The first recorded use of the term "nymphet", defined by ''[[Century Dictionary|The Century Dictionary]]'' as "a little nymph",<ref>Search ''The Century Dictionary'' at http://www.global-language.com/CENTURY/</ref> was by [[Michael Drayton|Drayton]] in ''[[Poly-Olbion]]'' I. xi. Argt. 171 (1612): "Of the nymphets sporting there In Wyrrall, and in Delamere." |
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Nymphet was used by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] in the novel ''[[Lolita]]'' to describe the 9- to 14-year-old girls to whom the protagonist is attracted.<ref name = Nabokov>{{Cite book| last = Nabokov| first = Vladimir| editor=Alfred Appel| title = The Annotated Lolita| publisher = Random House| date = 1991| isbn= 0679727299}}</ref> |
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===Lolita=== |
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{{Main|Lolita}} |
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The archetypal nymphet is the character Dolores Haze of [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s novel ''Lolita''. Nabokov, in the voice of his narrator Humbert, first describes these nymphets in the following passage: |
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{{cquote| Now I wish to introduce the following idea. Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but [[nymph]]ic (that is, [[demon]]iac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as 'nymphets.' |
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It will be marked that I substitute time terms for spatial ones. In fact, I would have the reader see 'nine' and 'fourteen' as the boundaries—the mirrory beaches and rosy rocks—of an enchanted island haunted by those nymphets of mine and surrounded by a vast, misty sea.<ref name=Nabokov />}} |
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For Humbert, a nymphet is in the earliest stages of [[puberty]]: "The bud-stage of breast development appears early (10.7 years)."<ref name=Nabokov /> When he meets a streetwalker who claims to be 18, he considers her no longer a nymphet, although her body is still in some ways childlike.<ref name=Nabokov /> |
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===Faunlet=== |
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The term '''faunlet''', also coined by Nabokov and used by Humbert Humbert, is used to describe the young male counterpart of a nymphet, in the same way that the mythological [[faun]]s were the counterpart of the [[nymph]]s. The term appears in the novel twice: |
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{{cquote| When I was a child and she was a child, my little Annabel was no nymphet to me; I was her equal, a faunlet in my own right, on that same enchanted island of time.<ref name = Nabokov />}} |
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{{cquote| ...I met the unblinking dark eyes of two strange and beautiful children, faunlet and nymphet, whom their identical flat dark hair and bloodless cheeks proclaimed siblings if not twins.<ref name = Nabokov />}} |
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==See also== |
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{{Wiktionary|nymphet|lolita}} |
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*[[Lolicon]] |
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*[[Pedophilia]] |
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*[[Ephebophilia]] |
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*[[Adolescent sexuality]] |
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*[[Female body shape]] |
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*[[Physical attractiveness]] |
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*[[Youthfulness]] |
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*[[Baby face]] |
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*[[Cuteness]] |
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*[[fecundity]] |
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*[[Eating disorder]] |
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*[[Sexual capital]] |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/agora/Articles.cfm?ArticleNo=157 ''Constructions of Childhood in Art and Media: Sexualized Innocence''], Alexandra Wood. |
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*[http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/article/little_deadly_demons "Little Deadly Demons: Nymphets, sexuality and a North American girl-child"], Dawson, Kellie, ''American Sexuality Magazine''. |
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*[http://calitreview.com/2007/03/26/lola-lola-lola/ "Lola! Lola! Lola!"], by Jascha Kessler in the ''[[California Literary Review]]'', March 2007 |
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[[Category:Sexuality and age]] |
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[[Category:Pedophilia]] |
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[[Category:Vladimir Nabokov]] |
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[[eo:Nimfeto]] |
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[[fr:Nymphette]] |
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[[ko:님펫]] |
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[[ja:ニンフェット]] |
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[[pt:Ninfeta]] |
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[[ru:Нимфетка]] |
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