Steve Norquist:"I watched the clips on YouTube a few days ago; it's true that VN doesn't get overly defensive about defending himself. Instead, he matter-of-factly states ..."

 

JM: He must have grown bored by the permanent misplaced insinuations about Lolita's pedophile and himself, independently of what he wanted to express in his works concerning what he could see, experience and read about and that is permanently taking place all over the world? 

What about Mr. Nymphobottom? With the exception of sibling incest, most cases in ADA involve pedophilia, if I'm allowed to stray a little from a strictly generic definition, as the one that's been recently quoted*: Demon and Ada, Dan and Lucette, Van and every other "Villa Venus" habituées playing with their catamites. Also the Zemblan King Charles, the Beloved, unlike Charles Kinbote, was a pedophile...Aren't little boys, like young girls, also the victims of child abuse?

 

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*- "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) outlines specific criteria for use in the diagnosis of this disorder. These include the presence of sexually arousing fantasies, behaviors or urges that involve some kind of sexual activity with a prepubescent child (age 13 or younger, though onset of puberty may vary) for six months or more, and that the subject has acted on these urges or suffers from distress as a result of having these feelings. The criteria also indicate that the subject should be 16 or older and that the child or children they fantasize about are at least five years younger than them, though ongoing sexual relationships between a 12-13 year old and a late adolescent are advised to be excluded...."