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A '''nymphet''' is a sexually precocious or attractive pubescent girl. The term was coined by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] in the novel ''[[Lolita]]'', in which the main character, a self-described [[pedophile|nympholept]], uses it to describe the girls (aged 9 to 14) to whom he was attracted. |
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==Lolita== |
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The archetypal nymphet is the character [[Lolita]] of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, from which the term originated. ''Lolita'' has been filmed twice: the [[Lolita (1962 film)|first adaptation]] was made in 1962 by [[Stanley Kubrick]], and starred [[James Mason]], [[Shelley Winters]], [[Peter Sellers]] and, as Lolita, [[Sue Lyon]]; and in 1997 starring [[Jeremy Irons]] and [[Dominique Swain]]. |
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Nabokov describes these nymphets as being "deadly little demons" with feline features and thin, downy limbs. Nymphets are not always the type of girls a normal man would consider the prettiest, but they have a demonic ability to attract men at least ten years older than themselves. |
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==Related terms== |
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===Faunlet=== |
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The term '''faunlet''', also coined by Nabokov and used by the character of Humbert Humbert, is used to describe the young male counterpart of a nymphet, in the same way that the mythological [[faun]]s (or [[satyrs]]) were the counterpart of the [[nymph]]s. |
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===Nympholept=== |
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Nabokov borrowed the term ''nympholept'', a rare, archaic term meaning a person seized by emotional frenzy, as if enchanted by nymphs. The word is found with this meaning in the poetry of [[Lord Byron]]: "The nympholepsy of some fond despair." |
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Nabokov used the word to describe one who could "discern" nymphets from other girls. In Humbert's own words: "[A nympholept is] an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy with a bubble of hot poison in [his] loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in [his] subtle spine." |
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==See also== |
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*[[Lolicon]] |
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*[[Pedophilia]] |
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*[[Ephebophilia]] |
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*[[Child sexuality]] |
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*[[Adolescent sexuality]] |
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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/MagArticle.cfm?SID=C8DBD6B041CD13A44671203D4248195C&DSN=nsrc_dsn&Mode=EDIT&Article=607&ReturnURL=1 Little Deadly Demons: Nymphets, sexuality and a North American girl-child] Dawson, Kellie, ''American Sexuality Magazine''. |
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[[Category:Sexuality and age]] |
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[[fr:Nymphette]] |
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[[ja:ニンフェット]] |
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