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...."