Free Nymphet

Free Nymphet is seen to be a sexually precocious, attractive girl, and was notably used by French author Pierre de Ronsard,[1] and popularised by Vladimir Nabokov in the novel Lolita.[2] In Lolita, protagonist Humbert Humbert uses it to describe the 9-14-year-old girls to whom he is attracted. In today’s popular press the term is sometimes applied to women in their late teens or early twenties.

The archetypal Nymphett is the character Lolita of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Nabokov, in the voice of his narrator Humbert, first describes these nymphets in the following passage:


“     Now I wish to introduce the following idea. Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as “Nymphets.”
It will be marked that I substitute time terms for spatial ones. In fact, I would have the reader see “nine” and “fourteen” as the boundaries - the mirrory beaches and rosy rocks - of an enchanted island haunted by those nymphets of mine and surrounded by a vast, misty sea.[6]
For Humbert, a Nymphet is in the earliest stages of puberty - “The bud-stage of breast development appears early (10.7 years)”[7]. When he meets a streetwalker of 18, he considers her no longer a nymphet, although her body is still in some ways childlike.
from wikipedia


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