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Balthus' THE STREET: A Nymphet Groped Before and After the MoMA
Balthus'The Street: Before (1933) and After (1955) the MoMAWe're reading Weber's Balthus: A Biography in preparation of the second edition of Nymphalis Carmen: Nympholepsy in Nabokov’s Oeuvre. We asked...
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YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2018): Rescuing a Nymphet Prostitute
Here's the IMDb plot summary for You Were Never Really Here (2018):A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares...
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THE PARIS REVIEW, Sade & Nymphet Erotica
Here's a recent tweet from The Paris Review and my reply:The tweet links to this post:And here's a relevant excerpt from Nymphalis carmen: Nympholepsy in Nabokov’s Oeuvre:Appel noted [in The Annotated...
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LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN's Tralala: A Brooklyn Teen Prostitute
Per Amazon: [Hubert Selby Jr's] Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America’s cities....
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University of Michigan Study: Nymphets Peak at 18, Men at 50
Maya Salam related in her New York Timespiece the results of Bruch and Newman's study, "Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets", that was published in the journal Science Advances.But...
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Famous Ephebophile: Pablo Picasso
Marie-Thérèse and Pablo PicassoIn a March 2018 piece in The Guardian, "Muse, lover, lifeblood: how my grandmother woke the genius in Picasso", Olivier Widmaier Picasso wrote about his grandmother,...
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YOU CAN HAVE MY BEHYMEN: TEEN SODOMY IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA (A [Cameraless]...
You Can Have My Behymen: Teen Sodomy in Mainstream MediaA [Cameraless] Documentary
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SHARP OBJECTS' (2018) Amma: An "Incorrigible" Nymphet (A Video Montage)
I ran across articles about Sharp Objects from the New York Times to New York magazine, but I didn't decide to watch the HBO series until I read Godinez's comment in the Times.Aha. Someone finally got...
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Netflix's BIG MOUTH: "A Show About a Bunch of Kids Masturbating"
The Netflix plot summary for Big Mouth is an understatement: "Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and...
View ArticleWilmot's "Song of a Young Girl to Her Ancient Lover"
The Poetry Foundation wrote that John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), "was the cynosure of the libertine wits of Restoration England." And that Wilmot "[...] was ranked as a poet second only to...
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100 STROKES OF THE BRUSH BEFORE BED: "The Erotic Adventures of a Sexually...
Melissa Panarello’s semi-autobiographical novel,100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed [Italian: 100 colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire], has sold over a million copies. The following excerpt...
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SLUT: THE PLAY: Nymphets Re-Claim Slut Status
On the cover of the book Slut: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence, which was published by the Feminist Press of my alma mater, The City College of New York, Gloria Steinem...
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Famous Teleiophile & Lipstick Lesbian: Holiday Golightly
I wrote in The Allure of Nymphets that in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holiday Golightly married a much older man at the age of thirteen, she lived with a college jock at the age of fifteen,...
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DeLappe's THE WOLVES: "Raw" Nymphet Soccer Coeds
Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves, among other accolades, was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play was originally produced at The Duke on 42nd Street before it moved to the Lincoln...
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Greuze's THE BROKEN VESSEL: A Nymphet's Lost Virginity
Jean-Baptiste Greuze's La cruche cassée [The Broken Vessel] (1771) is on display in the prestigious Louvre Museum. Here's part of the description of the painting that's posted on the Louvre's...
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Nymphet Marriage in the United States
Chris Baynes related in an Independent post that:More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed. Three 10-year-old girls [...] were among the...
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Levine's HARMFUL TO MINORS: THE PERILS OF PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM SEX
Here's the summary of Judith Levine's Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex from the book's publisher, the University of Minnesota Press:A radical, refreshing, and long overdue...
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TRUST (2010): An Online Nymphet is Betrayed
Here's IMDb's plot summary for Trust (2011): A suburban [Chicago] family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie [...] meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat...
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Seidel's PEACHES GOES IT ALONE: Poetry About Nude Schoolgirls & More...
We profiled the poet Frederick Seidel in The Allure of Nymphets and he continues to write about nympholepsy and age-discrepant attraction in his latest book Peaches Goes It Alone .. For example, the...
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DANCE NATION: A Play About [Very Dirty] Dancing Nymphets
Here’s part of the plot summary for Dance Nation (2018) that’s posted on Playwrights Horizons:Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their...
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