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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. |
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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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." |
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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==Nymphets in culture== |
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* [[Jodie Foster]] <ref name=GQ>Norris, C: "GQ", page 156. Academic Press, November 2005</ref> |
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* [[Brooke Shields]] <ref name=GQ/> |
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* [[Myra Gale Brown]] <ref name=GQ/> |
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* [[Mariel Hemingway]] <ref name=GQ/> |
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* [[Natalie Portman]] |
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* [[Alexis Dziena]] |
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* [[Sue Lyon]] |
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* [[Dominique Swain]] |
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* [[Ashley Tisdale]] <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2454 | author=Mike, Errico | publisher=Blender | title=Hottest Women of Pop/R&B}}</ref> |
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* [[Samantha Geimer]] <ref>Hyena, H. "World Sex Laws." December 2006.[http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/12/28/world-sex-laws/]</ref><ref>Norris, C: "GQ", page 156. Academic Press, November 2005</ref> |
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* [[Evan Rachel Wood]]<ref>Dermansky, M. "Pretty Persuasion." 2005.[http://worldfilm.about.com/od/o/fr/persuasion.htm]</ref><ref>"Latest Reviews: Pretty Persuasion." 2005.[http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2480&IssueNum=114]</ref> |
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* [[Alizée]] <ref>http://diweb.info/2005/09/20/alizee-jacotey/</ref> |
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* [[Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki]] <ref> "Rain." [http://www.masterly-commissions.com.au/rain.html]</ref> |
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* [[Hilary Duff]]<ref>Liss, S. "Choose Your Pop Tart." NOW Magazine. [http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-01-13/music_feature4_p.html]</ref> |
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* [[Laura Prepon]]<ref>[http://www.homunculus.com/eikona/prepon.html]</ref> |
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* [[Lindsay Lohan]]<ref>Poshni, S. and Bayley, A. "Sugar Sean's Best-Worst List 2004."[http://www.counterattack.info/essays/0058.html]</ref><ref>Bartyzel, M. "Trailer For Lindsay Lohan's 'Georgia Rule' Online."[http://www.cinematical.com/2007/03/14/trailer-for-lindsay-lohans-georgia-rule-online/]</ref> |
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* [[Keisha Castle-Hughes]] <ref>Bayley, A. "Sugar Sean's Best-Worst List 2006." [http://www.counterattack.info/open.html]</ref> |
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* [[Christina Aguilera]] <ref>Sanderson, R. "Pop Nymphette Teams Up with Versace."[http://www.christina-a.net/cp/news/english/article03-15.shtml]</ref> |
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* [[Mischa Barton]] <ref>Gunatilaka, T. "Starry Night: Whitestarr Love Rock 'N' Roll, Pugs."[http://www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=1049]</ref><ref>Holman, C. 2006. [http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A110992 "Left Wanting: 'The O in Ohio' can't seem to find the spot."] </ref> |
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* [[Ludivine Sagnier ]]<ref>http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/dvdreviews/peter_pan.htm</ref> |
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==References== |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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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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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 nympholept, uses it to describe the girls (aged 9 to 14) to whom he was attracted.
Lolita
The archetypal nymphet is the character Lolita of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, from which the term originated. Lolita has been filmed twice: the 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.
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.
Related terms
Faunlet
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 fauns (or satyrs) were the counterpart of the nymphs.
Nympholept
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."
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."
See also
External links
- Constructions of Childhood in Art and Media: Sexualized Innocence, Alexandra Wood.
- Little Deadly Demons: Nymphets, sexuality and a North American girl-child Dawson, Kellie, American Sexuality Magazine.