![]() According to Humbert, a Nymphet was a young girl between 9 and 14 years old, however most people who use the term Nymphet romanticize the relationship between an older teen or ‘barely legal’ with an adult, which better fits the definition of a ‘coquette’.īy around 2014, on Tumblr, young women took on this trope for themselves, as in addition to the reasons above, it was an aesthetic surrounding femininity, tragedy, and burgeoning sexuality. This type of teenaged girl depicted is always sexually attractive and seduces men via plausibly deniable flirtations, hence Humbert's use of "coquette." These girls (in fiction, reality, and in the girls' fantasies) do so because of a genuine sexual/romantic attraction for older men, the security of being taken care of by an adult, the thrill of breaking taboos, the desire for power over someone, gifts from sugar daddies, being admired for being attractive, etc. Through a series of misunderstandings about the character type, a Lolita or nymphet was thought to be a young woman who purposefully pursues and manipulates older men into sexual situations, making them practically opposite of Nabokov's original intentions of depicting the character Dolores as a victim. The term means "sexually precocious young girl," and was used by Humbert as a way to justify his predatory actions towards 12 year old Dolores Haze, his victim. Nymphet is an illusion created in the mind of Humbert Humbert, the (unreliable) main character and narrator of both the films and book. Nymphet, also sometimes referred to as Coquette or Vintage Americana Coquette, is an aesthetic based on a character trope originated by Vladimir Nabokov in his book Lolita, published in 1955 and its movie adaptations from 19.
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