“You Wanted To!”

When two people are caught committing the same crime, such as sex with minors, they both get punished with possible jail time.  When a man gets punished for said crime, he is a monster, a pervert, and he goes to jail.  It would probably be accompanied by a public uproar.  When an attractive young woman commits the same crime, there probably would not be the same strong reaction, or maybe there would be.  If she had some kind of celebrity status or a status close to it, the sentence would probably be lenient.  I don’t think I could say the same about the man.

Diary of a Monster

In the Vladimir Nabokov book, “Lolita”, the main character, Humbert Humbert, tells us of a love affair that he has with a young girl, or “nymphet, named Dolores Haze.   The way he writes this story makes it seem beautiful (at least, the beginning), disturbing, and perverse.  As you read this, do you feel sympathy for Humbert, or do you dismiss him as a monster?  I would say that he is a monster even with the circumstances considering his mental state.

Obviously, what is going on between Humbert and Lolita is illegal.  Not to mention that it is also considered immoral because it can be said that she is just a little girl even though she appears to be precocious with some “experience”, if you catch my drift.  Otherwise, I would argue that because she is just a little girl, she does not have much life experience.  Subjecting her to something like what Humbert did would not be right, in my opinion.  Seriously, having a man like that becoming involved with Charlotte just to be close to Lolita?  Depending on the situation, this might not be so bad, but for a pedophile, this is pretty fucked up and so is drugging her to attempt to have sex with her.

Purity of Perversion

When you think of the word, “perverse”, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Usually, when I think of that word, I usually connect it to sexuality until I noticed the word, “sexual pervert”. That was the definition that I was used to, but being a pervert and a sex pervert aren’t that different. Being a sexual pervert can refer to deviant/sexual behavior and a pervert is defined by Merriam-Webster as “to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right”. It’s also defined as being corrupt. We’ve all gone through this as little kids. We were curious about our surroundings and some of us may have used a certain body part(s) to interact with our surroundings.  There’s nothing wrong with that, right? Right?!  Sexual behaviors such as this are normal.  Then again, what is normal?