Lolita

I get sudden hard-ons while reading this book. Is this normal?

I get erections all the time. It's normal. As long as you don't constantly think about having sex with twelve year olds, you're probably fine.

Why would that be a problem?

I don't know how, when even the sex scenes are presented in an unsexy, too-cerebral way.

You can pretty much tell the people who haven't read "Lolita"—they think the book is sexy/smutty.

>I get sudden erections while reading this book

The point, sir.
What you're experiencing is the POINT.

It's the images that pop into my mind.

The only real cuddly and sensual bits are towards the beginning, namely that scene where he covertly rubs himself against her until he ejaculates. From an erotic standpoint that was the highest point of action of the whole book, and it was like less than a quarter into it.

Was this really the point? Is this widely considered on this board

Not whom you're replying to, but

>For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

I'm not fine then

>You can pretty much tell the people who haven't read "Lolita"—they think the book is sexy/smutty.
this desu

Yeah I got an erection once while reading it, but became very ashamed of myself upon finishing it.

I think Sue Lyon's casting in Kubrick's film is at least part of the reason why the book is so sexualized unauthentically. I mean she was 16 at the time, which is a whole lit different than 12

>not sexy

>She trembled and twitched as I kissed the corner of her parted lips and the hot lobe of her ear. A cluster of stars palely glowed above us between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own. Her legs, her lovely live legs, were not too close together, and when my hand located what it sought, a dreamy and eerie expression, half-pleasure, half-pain, came over those childish features. She sat a little higher than I, and whenever in her solitary ecstasy she was led to kiss me, her head would bend with a sleepy, soft, drooping movement that was almost woeful, and her bare knees caught and compressed my wrist, and slackened again; and her quivering mouth, distorted by the acridity of some mysterious potion, with a sibilant intake of breath came near to my face. She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward fist the scepter of my passion.

Goddamn that is really fucking good.

what's he holding, is it a condom with a butterfly pic?

Oh man oh man oh man, this is dangerous! You shouldn't post such things! I mean shit, I knew that this place was filled with cruel and twisted people, but to this extent... Scandalous. I'd never guess a villain of such scope could post here. Getting hard-ons from Lolita, truly you are one contorted individual, wicked even!

I believe it is a deceased and flattened butterfly, which Nabokov was known to collect.

...

that's fucking great hahaha

nice :3

I listened to the audiobook read by Jeremy Irons. I tend to find audiobooks lackluster, but goddamn if Mr Irons' performance doesn't complement the flow of the prose.

I highly recommend it.

So did you get an erection?

I agree completely read book, mate gave me Kubrick movies watched movie not even close to the book. It was like shitty slapstick comedy shit. The whole shock was the age not age gap that's as common as assholes.

If you got an erection while reading Lolita, I've got some bad news for you, but if you didn't get a erection while reading Lolita, I've got some worse news for you

do you guys thing Nabby ever chased any actual nymphets?

nah i jerked off to this book desu

I'm a girl and got turned on by the book. Had to take many breaks to masturbate. I also watch step daddy porn, or if just plain old guy and young girl stuff.

so, nabokov wrote smut indeed

The beginning is kinda smutty. But once they hit the road and banged a few times it really becomes a lot less sexual.