Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Lolita (term)" in English language version.
At no point is Lolita anything but a typical girl of her age and time: tomboyish (she has a tendency not to wash her hair), interested in movies, celebrities, magazines, and soda pop. She does nothing to attract Humbert in any way. She does not dress or make herself up with any thought to attract him. Yet the Lolita of the book—the young, asexual tomboy exploited by the manipulative older man—is not the representation that is stereotypically thought of by the word Lolita. This is possibly because of the films that have been made, based on the book, present a very different representation.
In Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel, Lolita, the character Lolita is a child who is sexually victimized by the book's narrator. The word Lolita has, however, strayed from its original referent, and has settled into the language as a term we define as 'a precociously seductive girl.'...The definition of Lolita reflects the fact that the word is used in contemporary writing without connotations of victimization.
I know some other girls that wear lolita, and they're white. They get asked if they're in a play, as opposed to where are you from.
