Re: Discuss: Lolita and child liberation

My premise isn't that she didn't consent to the sex (I realize she did at the beginning) but that it is complicated, she obviously came not to like it, and the whole relationship with Humbert wasn't good for her in the long run.

I agree that his being honest at the start would be much better, but I have every reason to think Lolita would just have told him to get lost. People note that young women sometimes marry much older men, but they don't set out to date them. They meet them in casual situations and gradually fall for them. No opportunity for that. Lolita never cared for Humbert, though she was interested briefly in experimenting with sex.