@Understater: How is she not defenseless? He enters her life, and kidnaps her - he makes sure she has nobody to turn to, and he knows she has no way to rely on herself were she to run away (being 12 and all)

@lorax42: I agree. But at the same time, to be able to say, "fair enough Humbert, carry on," you have to already have accepted the idea of a 12 year old being sexually available to a grown man. Even if a lot people don't get how to read unreliable narration, how they can feel anything but horror terrifies me.

I hate how badly so many people miss the point of this book. It's narrated by a confessed pedophile facing a jury, but "Lolita" now is now used to mean a seductive little ho who manipulates poor old men.

being fatter means reaching puberty earlier. These girl are more "developed" younger so they can be married younger.

This is worse than what they're showing - they do this in part because