Britney Spears & the Lolita Complex

Published: August 19, 2007, 6:03 am

Spears's breakdown reminds me of a tragedy contained within a novel, and the novel in question is Nabokov's Lolita, the story of how Humbert Humbert, a fastidious European aesthete and paedophile, seduced and destroyed a 12-year-old American girlRemember the then 16-year-old Britney Spears in 1998, bright-eyed, confident and lithe, gyrating sensationally in her school uniform while singing the ambiguous lyrics: "Hit me baby one more time" The phenomenon that was Spears allowed middle-aged men who would otherwise have felt embarrassed about ogling schoolgirls to be roguishly open about fancying BritneyMost Men [And Some Women] Want Sex With Teenagers: Is It Pedophilia?Earlier this month, when 28-year-old Orange County English teacher Sarah Bench-Salorio was charged with molesting two of her underage male students, the public reacted with the mix of outrage and titillation that usually attends such cases.Yes, people, were condemning this woman's actions alleged actions; she just

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