Rotten Mango - #133: The 12 Year Old “Temptress”

Episode Date: January 23, 2022

What is a nymphet? It’s a seductress of course. She knows what she’s doing. She finds men that are alone, vulnerable, and she tempts them. She will walk by and by using her superpower seduction she doesn’t even need to talk to them. She doesn’t touch them. She simply exists and that is enough. The men then drop to their knees and forget to think straight. They are willing to risk it all for her. Even years of their lives in prison. Why prison you ask? Did I forget to mention nymphets are 9 years old? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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you guys know what a nymph it is? It's a seductress, of course. One that knows what she's doing. She tempts men that are traveling alone, potentially sitting alone at a park bench. Maybe he's waiting for his bus to come, or he's in the pasta saw style just pondering away. Do I get marinara? Do I get Alfredo? He's thinking all of these things and she just walks on by. She uses her superpowers to seduce him. I mean, she's so powerful to the point where she doesn't even talk to him. She doesn't touch him. She doesn't even look at him. But now all he can do is think about her. It's to fall in love with her and he will risk everything to be with this girl.

He will risk years and years of his own life to be with her. Why you ask? Well, I might have forgotten to mention, Nimfitz are 9 years old. And that my friends is the mind of a pedophile. How do we know this? Well, that's what today's episode is about. As always, full source notes are available at rottonmangopodcast.com, but there's a really good book on this case. It's called The Real Alita by Sarah Weinman. Now, Sarah is a journalist. She scoured through court documents, transcript, prison records, legislative records, testimonies.

She interviewed dozens of people for this book and a lot of them were related to the victim herself. She's honestly such a talented writer, which a lot of the times you'll have journalists writing books and then listen, I'm not an author, I'm just a reader, okay? But sometimes maybe you're like, oh, I don't see the full potential. She knocks it out of the park. And without her, Sally Horner probably would be a forgotten name to this day. So please go check out her book. She also has a few other true crime books that I've heard are terrific. So let me know. Now, there is another book called Lolita by Vladimir Nobukov.

Now Lolita is a very controversial book. It was incredibly famous. It's still famous to this day. It was written in 1955 by a Russian American novelist. This is a book that has sold over 60 million copies worldwide. So yeah, it's widely known, it's incredibly popular. I've actually heard this title ever since I was young. I want to say like middle school, high school, and for some reason because it's such an old book, I kind of considered it a classic and

I don't think I'm alone here. A lot of people maybe have just thought it's one of those classic books. No, no, it's like a really sinister book. It's not about falling in love in a field, it's not about social classes, it's literally the inner thoughts of a pedophile. So to put it in perspective, just how popular it was, there's more copies sold of Lolita than the great Gatsby. To kill a mockingbird, hunger games,

and the diary of Anne Frank. More copies of Lolita has been sold. It did not sell Harry Potter, it did not out sell Harry Potter though, so there's that. But the sales isn't what drives people crazy right now about Lolita. Rather, the whole book is super, super controversial, okay? Before we get into the book, let's talk about Vladimir. Why didn't he even write this book? Well, it all started on a butterfly expedition with his wife. The setting of where he came up with such atrocities is so strange to me, a butterfly exhibition. Do you know what that is? You go to see butterflies. No, you don't just see them. Back in the day, they would give you these giant nets and these full-grown adults just literally go into the fields and catch butterflies.

I've seen pictures of this, and it looks like a drug-induced cult if I'm being honest. Like, I know you're trying to study the butterflies. So a bunch of people are just chasing after butterflies. So imagine a bunch of adults staring into the sky above them with giant nets jumping up and down randomly. You know, it does seem very culty, like some mid-summer vibes. I want to say it's kind of fun, but I feel like that's not appropriate.

Yeah, but they don't really do that anymore. I don't think I think you can only do that if you're like a scientist that really studies butterflies. So it's not specified if they ever let the butterflies go. What do they do with the butterflies? I have a feeling that they don't let them go. I have a feeling that they preserve slam or studied them, but you realize that the book has nothing to do with butterflies. It has to do with an old man essentially kidnapping an underage 12-year-old girl, and the whole thing feels really off-putting, knowing that he came up with it while catching butterflies. This old dude is going around in fields catching these fragile little creatures. Creepy stuff, right?

Sounds like a bam, you talked about that. Yeah, the butterfly collects our ride, and then you learn this guy is obsessed with collecting butterflies, so it makes it all more full circle since he was seven years old, Vladimir, the author. It just adds to the whole strangeness of it all I swear. He briefly worked at the Harvard's Museum of Zoology for a while. He spent his time drawing butterfly wings and butterfly genitalia. So far up to 14 hours a day, this motherfucker was just drawing butterfly genitals.

He said that the genitals of a butterfly were even more beautiful than the wings. Now I googled it. Okay, I had to. I had to. I googled butterfly genitalia. I think the FBI is after me. But it's a very creepy look. It's not beautiful.

I don't think. I mean, maybe in the sense that it's like a reproductive system. That's beautiful. But just very strange stuff. Anyway, there's a reason that he was able to dilly-dally with butterfly genitalia. It's because his parents were loaded. His mom was the granddaughter of a millionaire gold mine owner.

He didn't just mine for gold. He owned the mine, okay? So ever since Vladimir was young, he was speaking Russian, English, French. I mean this guy is very very educated. Also some side note about the author. He wrote his first book ever called Poems when he was a teenager. And one of the teachers I read it. Well, their cousin. The teacher's cousin is like a world renowned poet. One up to Vladimir's dad and said, please tell your son that he will never be a writer. And here we have Lolita. He should have just listened, okay?

There's layers to how creepy someone can get, and I think Vladimir is quite the onion. So you're thinking what the hell is Lolita really about? And the reason that this all comes full circle to true crime, like I'm gonna go into a whole spiel about Lolita is about. And the reason that this all comes full circle to true crime, like I'm going to go into a whole spiel about Lolita, is that it seems that Vladimir was inspired directly by a real case. Even though he denies it, he even names the victim by name in his book.

And then you literally see the parallels of the true crime case and what he wrote in his book, but he to this day, denies, I mean he's dead, but he denies and denies and denies, that he was ever inspired by true events. So it's just kind of up in the air. The question is, is that okay to literally write a fiction novel that is so detailed, so dirty, honestly, because he's writing from the perspective of a pedophile? Is that okay to base it off a true story? Not even just being inspired, really? So he's like romanticized, like a really dark dream. Oh yeah. So like I guess it also begs the question.

I mean, how much truth is there in fiction? And could you ever judge an author for a really messed up fiction novel? Exactly, right. Like romanticizing pedophiles. Yeah, or like, or would you say that maybe he's giving perspective into the mind of a pedophile. So that's why there's like a bit of a controversy. You know, some people are saying distinguish the difference between an author and his work. Yeah. Well, let's get into the book before we come up with any conclusions. This is going to be the fictional part of today's podcast.

I am going to do a deep dive, essentially a bam into Lolita. So the whole book is in first person point of view. Allegedly this is Humbert Humbert's diary. Yeah, first name Humbert, last name Humbert. I don't know if it's to add to the like the anonymity when he's writing it, but it's this little diary that he wrote and he sent it to a publishing house before he died. In prison, a few days before his trial is set to start. So it all starts with the preface. Let's start with the infamous opening line, Lolita. Light of my life, fire

of my loins, my sin, my soul, Lolita. The tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down to the pallet to the tap at three on the death lowly ta. Okay Vladimir is a really pretentious dude so this book is really incredible to get through because it's just too much. Why does he keep using big words when it doesn't add to the story? So she was low, plain low in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly in school. She was Delores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was always Lolita. I mean, immediately, it's pretty clear what type of dude we're dealing with. Humbert is a pedophile. More specifically, he's a pedophile apologist. Humbert says that majority of sex offenders,

they're just, you know, throbbing and they just like some sweet moaning and physical relation with a girl child. That's it. And these men are just inadequate, they're passive, they're timid strangers and pedophiles just ask the community. They ask the community to just let them pursue.

They're practically harmless, so-called abhorrent behavior. So-called what? Abhorrent behavior. I mean, you guys think it's so nasty, but like, is it really that bad? It's practically harmless. I mean, are a little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation? Why can't we pursue that without the police and society cracking down on us? Why can't we pursue that without the police and society cracking down on us? He says that pedophiles are not sex fiends and that they don't rip even good soldiers, but pedophiles don't rip. We're just unhappy mild gentleman. Yeah, that's what he says. They said that they can control these urges in the presence of adults, but they're ready to give years and years of their life in prison for one chance to touch a nymphet

Now let me tell you You're like what's a nymphet, okay, because I've heard of a nymph what's a nymphet? This is how Humbert describes pubescent girls because in Greek mythology There is a term called nymphs and they're essentially mythological nature spirits They're always depicted as these beautiful young women and they're always related to the Greek word for pride. So a lot of the times you'll see them in mythology as like lovers of gods, lovers of heroes,

or their mothers, they're known to be super nurturing, but they're also at the peak of their sexual prime, and they have a seductive charm about them that isn't slooty according to mythology, but also men, it's like kind of the perfect woman according to male standards. So coming from someone who recently gone into Greek mythology and loves it,

don't hate me, but that's just the vibe that I'm getting. So Humbert calls them nymphids, which are nymphs, but just many versions of them that are not of age yet. Really gross. So who the hell is Humbert Humbert? Humbert Humbert was born in Paris in 1910, and his dad was the owner of like this really luxurious hotel. So his grandfathers were merchants, they sold fine wine, silk, jewelry. I mean, they really made a lot of money.

Every woman and Humbert's family was highly educated, which is impressive today, but even more impressive back then when everyone was like, oh yeah, women should have no thoughts in that pretty little mind. So Humbert's mom dies when he's three years old. In this freak accident that involves a picnic and a lightning storm. I think she got electrocuted. I think she was struck by lightning. I'm going to be honest with you. He has no memory of this whatsoever. So Humbert's only mother figure in his life was his mom's sister, his aunt.

Her name is Sibyl, and she was married to this really successful perfume salesman that traveled all the time from Paris to America. He became rich and then ignored the crap out of her, literally abandoned her. So, she took it upon herself to stay with Humbert, and Humbert's a dad to be this pseudo-mother figure. I mean, it's clear she did this because she was in love with Humbert's dad.

Everybody knew. She loved her dead sister's husband. I mean, it was like the talk of the town. And Humbert's dad one day decided to take advantage of her on a rainy day and they had sex. But his dad was over her by the time the weather cleared up. But she just stayed around and she raised Humt. I mean, she was really strict, but he liked her. She liked writing poetry and for some odd reason she would always tell him, I'm not going to live long after your 16th birthday. It was very creepy. He was like, wow, that's really weird what he keeps saying that. But it was made even creepier because she literally died a couple days after he turned 16. And it was just so depressing.

But worry not, Humbert Humbert is rich, so he could just drown his sorrows and money. He spent most of his time running around his dad's hotel. He would go to the beach to swim, to dive, to watersky, to read books. He loved literature. He was a fancy kid. And when he was just 13, he meets this girl named Annabelle. And he describes her as having this brown bobbed hair, long lashes, and a big, bright mouth. Weird. Okay, this whole thing. The way he describes little girls in this book is gonna give you like goosebumps and like the heebie-jeebies because you just want to throw the book in the fireplace.

And like any other two 13 year olds. So at this point, when he falls in love with Annabelle, he's 13 too. So it's kind of more acceptable, right? It's just like young love. They quickly become obsessed with each other, and then one night they meet an animal's garden in secret, and Humbert leans in and kisses the corner of her lips, and then her cheek, and then her earlobe, and then Vladimir goes in depth on how these two 13-year-olds were just essentially dry-humping. Yeah, and Humbert will never forget this experience, the way she smelled, the way that he felt kissing her and he always wondered, did Lolita start with Annabelle? His first taste of

love and sexual desire, but Annabelle ended up dying. Yeah, she got like sickness. This is like back in the day when a lot of kids were a lot more vulnerable to diseases, and she died at a very young age. And Humbert Romanticized Annabelle's brief romance with him but also her death. He said that her death was so utterly shocking that he never dated again in his youth. He just always yearned for Annabelle, the girl that he shared so much with, prior to her death, and he claimed that they shared the same dreams.

So when she was alive, they would have the same dream, in the same night, they would like these connected souls, and even after she died, he continued to feel her thoughts in his head, just like floating or browned in his brain. So after high school, Humbert finally starts to kind of get romantically involved in his head, just like floating around in his brain. So after high school, Humbert finally starts to kind of get romantically involved in his college days. He would actually pay ladies to suffice him, is what he said.

So sex workers. He then graduated taught English to French students in France where he was living, and through these jobs, he started coming in contact with social workers, trying to learn English, maybe sometimes psychotherapists. They encouraged him to volunteer. So he started going to these orphanages, and these reform schools, and he's changing English, but in reality, he said, and I quote, I just wanted to come in contact with pale,

pubescent girls with matted eyelashes. He also stated that his favorite age group is nine years old to 14 years old. But not all the girls in that age group are nymphids. Of course not. Not every girl in that age group is asking for it. Is pretty much what he says. So he says that nymphids are between nine to 14 years old. But not every girl between that age is a nymphid. And these young girls are essentially seductresses

with great power of enticing lone men in his humble opinion. These nymphids are not human. But you can't spot them out. To non, to regular people, to non-petos essentially, you can't tell the difference between a child and an infant, they're unrecognizable in the crowd. You're not an infant because you're a pretty nine-year-old. It's not because

of your beauty or your grace. It just takes a very special person to identify a nimp fit. A peto, okay? So who is this very special person that recognized nimp fits in the crowd? Well, Humbert says, you have to be an artist or a madman. A creature of infinite melancholy. Yeah, the sky is really annoying, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins. The little deadly demon among the wholesome children, these little nymphids.

She stands unrecognized by them, and unconscious herself of her fantastic power. Oh, in order to recognize an infant, there has to be a huge age gap. He said you have to be at least 10 years older than an infant, but usually 30 to 40 years age gap is the best, and in some rare cases, 90 year age gaps are perfectly fine. So you're talking about a guy that's like on his way to the grave,

like 110, and there's just a nine-year-old, and he's like, that seems perfectly fine because she's the ones adducing him, duh. So why do you need to be so much older you ask? Well he says it's a it's a question of focal adjustment. Like you can't really see I don't know. Brow okay I don't know here I am trying to explain a fictional petos thoughts I'm just gonna tell you I don't know so immediately after college Humbert continues having these normal relationships with woman his age. And he just tried to suppress his desires

as much as possible. He felt ashamed, he felt tempted everywhere he went. He said, I was consumed by the hellfire of lust for every passing nymphet. Listen, hydro kids, I've never wanted to hide my niece more from the world after reading this, okay? Like it's terrifying. But as Humbert reached his 40s, he realized, wait, there's nothing really wrong with the way I feel. The reason is it's

against the law, but it's because of society and culture. I mean, okay, he would like to bless your ears with this example. Listen, when he's 25 years old, it's perfectly normal for him to date a 16 year old, at least at the time in Europe. But it would be unacceptable in America. So it's culture and society that's putting the limits on this age gap relationship. It's not morals or ethics. He also threw in countries that still have the practice of childbriads and said, see that's proof. Love happens with any age gap and you're like, wow, these girls are being sold.

But okay, what? He would also argue and say, look at these poets. They're obsession with underage girls. I mean, think about it. It was normal. It was culturally accepted. But it's like, yeah, nice try, you frickin' weirdo. Lots of things were normal a few hundred years ago.

So while Humbert spent a greater part of his years trying to be good, he said that he had the utmost respect for ordinary children. He loved their purity, their vulnerability, he would never under no circumstances have interfered with the innocence of a child, unless they were a nymphite. It was just a nymphite, so I mean they're not even human children. They're demons. They're seductresses. They had this extraordinary power to attract older men. Sure, Jan, it seems like Humbert has a type of nine-year-old study likes, and he's like, oh, that one's an nymphid,

because I like that one. And the other ones, they're just ordinary children. So as he's dating woman his age, he would sit at these park benches near a playground. Yeah, and he would pretend to read a book. But in reality, he was waiting to sneak his hand down his little pants and masturbate. One time, he saw Little Girl rush over him and reached under his park bench trying to find a marble that she dropped. And that really got him off. There were multiple pages on this whole thing, just really going at it.

Sometimes, and that's the thing about this book, okay? It's one thing to try to like share the perspective of a pedophile, but it just goes really in on describing like nine-year-old bodies. And you just feel almost like this should be illegal, and I feel like I should, FBI should be knocking on my door because I downloaded it, you know, off-kindle.

Like I should, I should be in jail, this feels weird. Sometimes you would walk around neighborhoods and see children with their curtains open, changing into their night clothes, and you would rush on home, literally speed all the way home so that he could masturbate. Why would you break into these apartments? For money, for drugs, whatever was in them.

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At one point Humbert had sex with a sex worker named Monica and once he saw her naked He realized that she had lied. She had it a few years to her age. Oh, she was in 18, probably more like 16 or 15, and he was so turned on by it. He said it was like the best ever. He hated that as time passed, he would see her more and more often, and she became more of a woman, and less juvenile. So that's got him thinking. There's got to be some sort of forked up sex service where I could have sex with underage girls I mean, there's got to be there's a market for everything in this world, right? So he finds a shady ad in the newspaper calls him up and is like, hey, you know what I'm looking for? I'm looking for something crazy and they're like well, we got it. So he meets up with the the madam

I guess of this brothel and she takes him to a very shady room. And there sitting on the chair was a girl at least 15 years old. But she was kind of made to look younger. So her hair was braided, she had ribbons in her hair, she was nursing a baby doll. So I don't know if this was a ploy, I don't know if this is just her not being able to develop as a normal girl because you know she's been sold into this sex trafficking ring, right? But the madams were just luring him in to steal his money, so he left without having sex, and it's speculated that he left because she was 15. He was expecting younger. So at 25 years old, Humber gets married. And his very own humble opinion, he believed himself to be a very good-looking man, and he had some money. So the idea of having

a wife that would just be at home and cook for him, keep the house clean while he fendled himself at local playgrounds? Oh yeah, it really tickled his tiny pickle, okay. So he marries this woman named Valeria, and he liked that she acted a bit childish for her age. So she's probably in her late 20s, but she dressed childish. She had these childish mannerisms. So he was like, ah, okay, this is the best I can do because I can't marry a child.

And after their wedding, he consummated their marriage, but only because he put her in little girls 90s. And that's kind of where the fun stopped after their first night together. He hated the shit too big of boobs. I'm like, wow, what a problem to have, okay? They were not pubescent girl boobs. She also had some stubble on her chin because, you know, women grow facial hair and her face was toad-like. He said, he looked, she looked like a frog is how he describes her. He said, and I quote, I had a large puffy, short-legged, big-brusted, and practically brainless grandma on my hands. She's like in her late 20s.

And he said, Grandma. But since Valeria was quiet and timid, I mean, the house was pretty peaceful. This is all Humbert wanted, so he kept her around. And even though she couldn't cook, they ate out most of the time. He just kind of, you know, left his wife at home and did his own thing. In case you don't hate Humbert enough already, he always referred to her as my fat Valeria. And he only had sex with her when he needed a legal way to channel his sexual desires. So if he sees a hot nymph at the playground, he would go home and have sex with his fat

Valeria. That's how he describes it in the book. And then Humbert's uncle drops dead. Okay, this is a. And then Humbert's uncle drops dead. Okay, this is a fictional book, okay. So he drops dead. And he owned this huge company in America, the perfumed company, right? So Humbert was offered the company at his death,

but he would have to move to America. So he tells Valeria, pack your things. We got a freaking go, right? And she responds by saying, I can't go with you because I'm forking our driver. So he's like, what? And they literally get into the driver's car and he's like, you're forking my wife?

And they go to a coffee shop and what a scene I tell you. I mean, Humbert is drinking coffee with his cheating wife and the driver and they're just talking about his wife's preferences. The driver is like, oh yeah, did you know Valeria loves philosophy? And he's like, what is going on? So he demands that she move out, take all of her things immediately, the driver offers to home.

And Humbert briefly thought about shooting and killing them both. But as the bullet market was, he decided they weren't worth the bullets. It's all why. Yeah, I mean, I think so, right? So in America, Humbert was recommended to stay at a woman named Charlotte, right, her house.

So she was open to lodgers and she had the semtubrum. And he goes to check it out and immediately he regrets it. Okay, Charlotte was a woman who was clearly in need for a romantic partner. So whoever recommended this was like, oh, she's single, your single, this is like perfect. She, yeah, she could use a larger, but she was just weird. She kept chain smoking and like looking at his lips and just like hitting on him and he's like,

oh, I gotta get outta here, ASAP. And Charlotte was not stupid. She caught his vibe. So she's like trying harder and harder to impress him. She's like, I know, I know, the room isn't the best, but listen, you're gonna be so comfortable here. Very comfortable. Let me show you the garden.

That's when Humbert saw it. Well, her, Lolita. Her real name is Dolores, but he calls her Lolita. And she was sunbathing in the grass, wearing a polka dot, two piece, and wearing sunglasses. She was 12. Humbert started to stare at her shoulders, her bear back and her stomach, and he

starts breathing heavily. He said that his knees were buckling, they were shaking. And immediately he said, I'll take it, I'll take the room upstairs. It's across the hallway from Charlotte and Dolores, who he called Lulita, and he was into it. He moved his things in that sameores, who he called Lolita, and he was into it. He moved his things in that same day, and he became quickly obsessed with everything that Lolita did. He watched her frolic in the garden. He watched her taking clothes off the drying line.

He would write down everything she was wearing on every single day. He literally kept a journal all about her all about his interactions with her He loves her light brown hair her perfect skin because yes Nymphids always have perfect skin even if they eat junk food because they're super human Ordinary girls have pimples at 12 13 not nymphids He always had questions from self that he wrote down like why did she she walk like that at 12? And why does she excite me so much? Why is she so infantile? And why is it so incredibly attractive? He was even turned on by merely her voice.

So she talked in like a high pitch, I don't know, like a 12 year old voice, I guess, right? And he was obsessed with it. He was like, wow, she sounds like a kid. And everyone's like, yeah, because she's a kid. Anytime she left the house, he wrote about how he missed her so much and he felt her absence and he was yearning for her. He literally wrote about every single inch of her appearance on any given day.

He even found like, you know, one of those baby journals, the moms keep, where they're like every year, they write down all their measurements. I don't think it's as common anymore, but back then, every single year, you would go to the doctor or you would measure her height, but not just her height, like your waist or your, you know, what do you call it, like your upper torso, all of that. He found that and took note of every single thing. Like, he was so enamored by her measurements.

This is a 12 year old. He would read a newspaper while Lolita sunbathed on the grass while reading a book, and she would lay on her stomach, and he said, they're my beauty, Lay, showing me, showing me the thousand eyes wide open in my eyed blood. Her slightly raised shoulder blades, the bloom along the curve of her spine,

the seaside of her, schoolgirl thighs. Yeah, and he would pretend to read, but he was mainly touching himself behind the newspaper. He would get so excited whenever she like made small movements like scratching her back. And again, this is all in the book in really great details. So I'm like trying to summarize, because I know you're sick of it, but Charlotte ruined it all, the mom, because she would come over, sit right down, and start some small talk about the newspaper. So Charlotte likes him. Charlotte likes Humbert, wants to get with Humbert. Now, the next day when Charlotte goes shopping, Humbert couldn't help but peep into Lowe's room, and she was struggling to get rid of something in her

eye, and he was like, you know what they they say the best way to get something out of your eye is to look at what's yeah so apparently that's what they did back in the day and he licked her eyeball and he like almost climaxed from that he like really liked it and he rushed back into his room and he panicked because he said in the quote never have I ever experienced such agony I am not used to being with nymphids, dammit.' So he starts setting these new traps to talk to Lolita. He would leave his door open while he was writing

in his little pedo diary and for days, nothing. But then she bit the trap. On the fourth day, out of sheer boredom, Lolita walked into his room and said, what's your doing? She sat on his lap while he showed her the things on his desk. So at first glance, like if Charlotte walked in, she would maybe think it's fatherly or like kind of cute, right? But in Humbert's mind, he's thinking about how he wants to kiss

her neck and how he knew that she wouldn't even mind, she would even welcome it because she's an infant and she's seducing Humbert. Of course, that's why she's sitting on his lap. Duh! He, and he also talks about how he genuinely wants to suck her toes. And thought that she wanted it too. He loved the smell that Lolita gave off because the young girl hated to bathe every day. And so I would just call that dirty, I guess. But he was like, mmm, love that smell. Low held his hand once and he would stroke it ever so gently and I mean it's clear.

Low is kind of looking upon this guy as like a father figure. Charlotte was honestly not a good mom. She was emotionally neglectful. She hated low for some reason. She would just slap her around whenever she wasn't listening. So Humbert was trying to convince himself that low is the one seducing him. Why else would she be holding his hand? I mean, there's no way that he actually believes all of his bullshit, right?

But he would write. First, she would tempt me. And then she would run away from me, leaving me with this dull pain in the very root of my being. He also noticed that Charlotte started to get very jealous whenever he would pay attention to Lo. And it seemed like, maybe Charlotte is weird weird or maybe she doesn't like strange men around her child.

I don't know, but one thing is clear, mom and daughter do not get along. Charlotte would always make low cry and low hate it, anyone seeing her cry so she would book it to her room, slam the door shut and Humbert would be utterly devastated. Not because they fought, not because lowola was crying, but because Lola had the type of tender complexions that after a good cry would be all inflamed and morbidly alluring. So this guy's so creepy, he thinks that it's sexually attractive after she cries. So he was obsessed with her crying face.

About three weeks after moving in, Charlotte and Lolita get into a huge fight. And Charlotte slams the door, leaves the house without Lolita, and Humbert thought that this was the great opportunity. I mean, it had been three weeks. Lolita's comfortable with him, right? Sweet ghost downstairs, alone with low. And he pretends to steal her apple.

And he takes it from her. And she's like bouncing around, like, give it back to me, you know? And he's holding it up in the air, and she's small, because she's a child, she's like tiny, right? And this caused her to like rush up and try to grab the magazine that he's reading, and it was all play wrestling until low was so exhausted. She sat down next to him and put her legs on his groin area to rest.

I feel like, you know, when you're 12 and you have this fatherly figure, you're not thinking of weird things. You're like, oh, this is like I'm just literally resting my legs on his legs, right? So I genuinely think that lowways feel like this might be my dad. He's living with us. I've never really had a dad. I mean, this is what I've been looking for. And he started talking to her about all these random little girl things,

while he was gently rocking her legs back and forth with his hands. So one might think it looks mindless. You know, she might think, oh, he's just like literally rocking my legs, right? But the mother forker was rubbing himself with her calves. Yeah. So she's bored out of her mind, and she starts to mindlessly eat her apple and sing. Now, there was this really popular song back in the day called Carmen. And it was like, my little Carmen, something, something, and blah, blah, blah, and Humbert,

orgasmed, terseinging. He said it was pure joy, pure bliss, unlike anything that he had ever felt before. She was completely ignorant to what happened, and he looked at her, and saw her lips shining with the juice of an apple, and he looked down and saw saw her lips shining with the juice of an apple and he looked down and saw a bruise on her thigh. And he touched it and said, oh no, look what you've done to yourself. And he imagined going up all the way up her leg.

Okay, he's a lot more descriptive than I'm going to be, but he decided not to because he pressed the bruise and she started squirming around like, oh that hurts. And in her squirming, she essentially turned over on top of him, and he said that moment where he let his hand to her butt was the last throb of the longest ecstasy a man or monster had ever known. Lolita had no idea which has happened. Again, she's just thinking like this is a very like play fighting with an adult, which made him think it was even better, more acceptable. He read, I feel proud of myself. I had stolen the honey of a spasm

without impairing the morals of a minor. Absolutely no harm, no foul, perfect. But his mood gets crushed when Charlotte comes home and announces. Humbert, Lolita, Montelores. Lolita's gonna go to summer camp. And he was devastated. For how long? Two months. Two months.

That's two months of the two years remaining in her nymphet age. She's 12. Her age is gonna stop at 14. That's two months of beauty, two months of tenderness. That's just gonna be gone. And I can do nothing about it. He's had in two years or so. She will cease to be an infant and she would turn into a young girl and then into a college girl, which that he called the college girl, the horror of horrors. It's the scariest thing in the world, okay? College, yeah. When she left, he went

into her room and stole a pink pair of panties. Meanwhile, Charlotte starts making her moves on the guy. Now that her daughter is gone. And I, I, I don't know. It's not that she suspected he was interested in Lolita. I'm hoping I'm assuming, but Charlotte was like, either leave or marry me. If you leave, I know that I am nothing without you Nothing at all to you and nothing at all But if you stay you're telling me the fact that you are remaining means one thing and one thing only that you want me as much as I do you Humbert read this letter and he was like yeah, I want to book it out the house because she's not even a college girl. She's like, a woman.

I don't like this. Olympian style, let's book it out. But he couldn't let Lolita go. And that's when he realized what a lot of people in this real world, unfortunately, realize what a lot of men, that all the casual caresses that a stepdad could give to Lolita,

he could hug her and kiss her three times a day, and people would say, aww, all his troubles would be gone. He could print little soft kisses, and everyone would think it's completely normal. He even thought about, what if I get rid of Charlotte? Wouldn't I become Lolita's sole guardian? That would be amazing! But that was too far-fetched. So he said, okay, I'll be okay

with drugging the both of them with sleeping pills so that I could fondle Lolita in her sleep. So both of them are knocked out. So when Charlotte gets back after dropping low-off at summer camp, the two adults immediately start forking. He's like, I'm in love with you, Charlotte. You're the woman of my dreams,

and I can't get any better. Let's do it. Humbert managed to enjoy it somehow because he started seeing Lolita and Charlotte since they were mom and daughter and they did have some similar features and mannerisms. So while Humbert is literally merely just putting up with her so that he could see Lolita more, Charlotte is becoming obsessed. Alita more, Charlotte is becoming obsessed. Every morning, she would wake up and cook him ham and eggs, and she would sit with her elbow on the table, her chin and her hand, and just stare at him lovingly while he ate.

And she would pout at him, and he said, these types of things made her feel younger, and that would be what saves their marriage. What? So Charlotte told him she wanted to send Alita to boarding school when she gets back, so that the two of them could be together in peace. And he was shocked. He said that he didn't know how to control this mad woman, this bland American Charlotte.

How do you control a woman like that? Had this been fat Valeria? He would have told her, now you look here, you fat fool. It's me who decides what is good for Dolores. Or shall I say Lolita? He couldn't even say no to Charlotte. He also couldn't even say, oh, why don't you give the kid another chance?

Like, I'll be her tutor. He couldn't. He said if he did, it would look as if he would give himself away. So instead, he started fantasizing about killing Charlotte. He started thinking about drowning her at the local lake. She was a mediocre swimmer at best. Okay, this guy's like so rude. Then he would rush out of the water, drown her, rush out,

shocked and stressed like, hell, oh my god, help, my wife is drowning. But by that point, it'd be too late. But he didn't go through with it. I'm not sure why, but this man's just like not that strong moral, so it's not because you don't want to kill someone. Maybe he felt like her ghost would haunt him for the rest of his life. At least that's what he wrote about in the book. So he started becoming slowly, more, and more dominant.

That was his game plan. So random small things. He would say, Charlotte, you make all the decisions in this house. I get nothing as a man that's going gonna really defeat my morals and my self-esteem and I won't be able to be in this marriage much longer. So you'd say, no, today we're not having steak for dinner, we're having shrimp. I don't even like shrimp,

but it's about time I put my foot down and I make some choices here. You see what he's doing? So eventually he's gonna make the choice that Lolita is not going to boarding school and she would see it as, wow wow he's just trying to be a man he's just the decision maker so he starts experimenting with a ton of different sedatives on Charlotte at varying doses to see what worked and what did end and one time she knocked her out real good okay he was blaring the radio nothing Nothing. Flashing flashlights in her eyes.

Nothing. He pushed her. He pinched her. Nothing. But the minute he kissed her, she bolted right up and was like, oh my god, how long does I have sleep for? And he was like, damn it! It's not good enough. So he goes to his doctor and he says, I need a better prescription.

I need even harder sedatives. I need to be knocked out like a freaking horse. Give me what you give the animals. Say, come so I'm excited with his new little prescription and he sees Charlotte in his office. Writing something. Furiously, she's got two envelopes that are all stamped up and ready to mail out.

And she turns around. She says, you're a monster. You're detestable. A criminal. If you come near me, I will scream. Get back. She said, I'm leaving tonight. This is all yours. You can stay here. Only you'll never, ever see that miserable brat ever again. Get out of this room. Charlotte had found his diary. Now he's panicked, okay. So he rushes over, he pockets his diary, and he tries to lie to her.

Like, honey, the notes that you found were parts of a novel that I'm writing, which, I don't know, the irony of all of this is so weird, by the way. It's just so weird. They were just parts of a novel that I'm writing, and your name and hers are there by mere chance, just because they came in handy, because I started writing and your name and hers are there by mere chance just because they came in handy because I started writing, you know, when I got here. Think about it. I mean, what I really think these things, it's a book.

I'm an academic, I'm an intellectual, you knew this when you married me. Let me pour you a drink. And he goes to pour her a drink. Charlotte instead finished writing her letters and she was gonna mail them off. Now the mailbox is across the street. So on her way to mail the letters, she gets hit by a car. Boom.

Humberk gets calm. Hey, your wife is on the street. And he's like, yeah, she for the streets. No, I'm kidding. He didn't say that. He was like, no, she's not. She's right here. And they were like, look outside your window.

He rushes outside and her head was completely crushed. What? Yeah. So a little girl rushes off, her sees the letters next to Charlotte, hands them to Hubbard, Humbert and I was like, oh, I don't know if you need this. He crumbles them up, puts it in his pocket

and he starts crying. He starts playing the part of a grieving husband. But all he could think about was, Lo is gonna get home from summer camp. Oh God, it's gonna be great. So, he told the family friends, I think I'm gonna take Lowe far away to help her start fresh and grief properly.

So the family didn't have any remaining relatives, it was just family friends. And Humbert felt like he hit a jackpot. He almost wanted to laugh. He went and bought L low clothes and bright colors, short skirts and shorts, and he bought bikinis in every single color possible. Everyone at the mall thought he was a cute, clumsy,

clueless father. But he was having a blast, watching the nymphs run around trying on clothes. So he picks up low from camp, and he rushes her to a hotel that he reserved. Now, he claims that Lolita got into the car and immediately was pissed. Not because her mom was dead, but because he didn't kiss her yet. Yeah, uh-huh, this is all Humbert's point of view, so like sure.

Um, Shorjan, he said that he was so taken aback by this, you know, forwardness that he didn't know how to respond and Lolita threw herself onto him and kissed him on the lips, and he tried not to get too excited. He was like, whoa, whoa, calm down, but he really couldn't wait to go back to the hotel. She also claimed that Lolita said this, Would my mother be absolutely mad? If she found out we were lovers? And he said, Good Lord, let's not talk that way. And she said, But we are lovers, aren't we?

And he said, not that I know of. So again, playing into this whole mind of like he thinks Lolita is seducing him. They go to the hotel where Lolita allegedly proceeded to flirt with him and tried on all the new clothes that he bought. And during dinner, he convinced her to take one of those pills that he had laying around. You know those sedatives that he got, the really powerful ones? He said it was a vitamin. So she takes it, and it didn't work. I mean, this guy went to the doctor saying, give me the strongest one you got, like an animal one, right? So he was given placebo pills because the doctor was like, yeah, I'm not going to give you that strong of a sedative.

You're being weird. And there was no way that he could do something to her now. I mean, the science of nymphilacy is a precise science. He couldn't get caught even though she wanted him and she was the one seducing him, because ladies and gentlemen, the logic there is flawless. He said even though she wanted him, he couldn't make any advances until she did. Like, it's weird. If you couldn't hate the guy more,

he also goes on a tangent about how Americans have French fries. And he said, how dare they call him French? Oh yeah. What? Yeah. And Humbert says, as they were laying there, he wants to tell you something. Something so strange that you might not even believe,

but it happened, it's true. Lolita was the one who seduced me. She saw me laying next to her, and she inched closer, and closer. but it happened, it's true. Lolita was the one who seduced me. She saw me laying next to her, and she inched closer, and closer, and then we kissed. And I was certain that there was no way she had never kissed anyone before. Her kiss was refined.

It had flutter and probing. I mean, it made me conclude, yeah, get this, it made him believe that she had been coached at an early age by a little lesbian, because no boy would have taught her skills like that. And then Humbert claims that Lolita whispered into his ear that she was not a virgin. That last year at camp there was this other girl who taught her various sexual poses, and then the two of them seduced a boy at camp and they took turns having sex with him. That morning, he had strunuous intercourse with her three times just that morning.

A.K. he whiepped her three times. She started to complain about having pain whenever she sat down. She also complained that she felt like she had torn something inside of her. And he would just silently stroke her hair while she cried. So he loved the night time because he could plowlita but during the days he found Lolita so annoying because she is a literal child, so she would throw temper tantrums, she would want to watch musicals, he said, mentally, I found her to be a disgustingly conventional little girl, GUI Fudge Sunday's musicals, obvious items, and her

list of beloved things. She was a nuisance. I started to understand Charlotte a bit. So as their relationship progresses, he starts giving her things and money for sexual favors. And he would constantly tell her, I'm your father and I love you. But let's see what happens if you, a minor,

go to the police. If you complain to an adult about me kidnapping and f***ing you, I mean, let's say they believe you. I go to jail. Okay, that's fine. But what happens to you, my little orphan? Maybe you'll be luckier than me. They'll ship you off to an orphanage.

But the minute that you misbehaving that orphanage, they will ship you to a correctional school where you will essentially be placed in a cell and you'll eat rancid, disgusting pancakes on Sundays. That is the situation. And this is the choice. Don't you think you'd better stick to your old man? Humbert refuses to tell the reader how Lolita reacted to this and he went on to say,

don't get me wrong, there is no greater pleasure than fondling a nymphet, but her neediness and temper tantrums are really starting to get annoying. Why couldn't she just be an obedient little doll? The audacity of her being a little girl, a regular little girl? What the fork? What happens when she turns 14 you ask? Well Humbert came up with a plan. Once she grew out of her nymphet stage, he would marry her at the ripe age of 16 years old,

right when it's legal. He would have a daughter with her, and he would wait till the little daughter was about 8 or 9 years old. He would be in his 50s, and that would be his Lolita the second. He would still be in his prime, and he was not a man beyond incest. He was not above it. He was down for it. But in the meantime, he didn't want Lolita to run away. So they start going cross-country with their roadtrip, staying at motels. And all of these little things are going to come in handy

when you listen to Sally Horner's case because, I mean, it's essentially Sally Horner's case. Even like the two years, Sally Horner was kept captive for two years, like it's literally, okay, anyways. So they start going cross country, staying at motels, and finally, he starts designing to settle down.

I think that he probably thought that he groomed Lelita enough that if she was sent to school, she wouldn't even say anything. So that's what he does. He sends her to private school, and he pretends to be her father. Now, he was shocked because he said, the minute Lelita went to school,

her morals were dropping. So let me explain. Humbert was giving her a weekly allowance on the condition that when he demanded a kiss or even a whole dry hump session, he would get it. But she turned the tide on him and she demanded a higher allowance. And when he said no, she refused to do sexual favors. He said he couldn't part anymore because he loved her.

So he ended up tripling and quadrupling her allowance, which he wasn't making a lot of money, okay? So the two biggest concerns in Humbert's life at this point were money and boys. So he was worried that she was going to fall in love with the boy. So he had two categories for how he would handle this. There was something called absolutely forbidden, which were dates, single or double dates, and especially no triple dates, because Humbert believed that triple dates all lead to a massive orgy at the end.

Nothing less, nothing more. I've been on a triple date before. It was a massive orgy, and I'm kidding. Okay? Then there's reluctantly allowed, which means you can go outside with your girlfriends, and sometimes you can giggle gaggle with young men, but I would be spying from a distance. Like I will be there watching you. Giggle Gaggle. He also started noticing other changes. I mean, it was nice two years ago when she was

12, but now, now she's like 14 and she's vulgar and she's untidy and she uses her grobby little hands to put greasy makeup onto our unwashed face. Her legs were getting more shapely and masculine and it was just not good. So they would get into fights and low was confrontational about the sexual assaults. She would scream at him, I know you attempted to violate me at my mom's house and I'm sure that you murdered my own mother and I will sleep with the first guy that comes around and there's nothing you can do about it. And Humber grabbed her by the wrist, she ran out of the house and after that fight that night she comes back home and she says,

I'm sorry, I'm just stressed from school. Can we just go on a road trip again? She said, can you carry me upstairs, please? I feel sort of romantic tonight. And Humbert was so excited about being her that he didn't even question the sudden change of heart. So they head up on their second road trip, and he started noticing some changes.

It looked like she was contacting someone. Like maybe cheating on him. Whatever it was, he didn't like it and he made sure to keep his gun around. Yeah, he had his gun on him the whole time. On the next stop of the road trip, he noticed a red convertible following them and it later showed up at the next motel and then at the gas station and he's like, what if it's a cop? The tension was getting super high. So he'd start taking it out on Lolita. He would slap her across the face Just said anything and then he would feel so bad about it that he would come and worship at her feet at night and suck her toes. I'm gonna be honest with you because he felt so bad

One time he saw her at the pool playing with a dog and this old guy was looking at her and this is what he had to say. I knew that my child, Belida, knew he was looking and she enjoyed the luxury of his look and was putting on a show for gambling glee that vile, beloved little slut. So with that, he was like, okay, maybe we shouldn't be using a community pool anymore. And he decided to rent a cabin in Arizona instead. Now, this is where the story completely changes course. The first night, he tried to put Lolita as usual, but she was whimpering. And he's attempting to fondle her, and he noticed that her skin was hot. He took her temperatures over a hundred degrees. Now at first, I mean, you and I would probably be freaking out, right? But he wasn't freaking out.

He said, and I quote, because hysterical little nymphs run up all kinds of temperatures. All the time. But her breath became bittersweet, her vagina tasted of blood, and she was shaking from head to toe. So he brushed her to the nearest hospital and was told that she had a very bad virus. They took her from him. And how he sees it is that he wasn't allowed to see her that day, so he started panicking. But he had no choice to leave and go back to the motel.

For the first time in two years, he was separated from her and the hospital let him see her again. Now that her fever died down, so the next day he shows up and then the next day, he would go to the hospital for like the next eight days. He would bring her gifts, her favorite things, and he would tell her there's no point in staying here longer, let's get out of here. But in reality, it's because he knew

that the nurses were getting more suspicious of him. And then one day he came to the hospital, and she was gone. Your daughter was checked out yesterday by her uncle. Yeah, he paid in cash. He told you not to worry that they will be at grandpa's ranch waiting for you for brunch. Humbert knew that Lolita had no living relatives. That was the day he lost Lolita.

He traveled across the country, stayed at 324 hotels, wanting to see where she was staying. I mean, someone took her. Was it the guy at the pool? He would go through all the hotel entries, try to find them. The abductor of Lolita was Claire Quilty. He used to be a boyfriend of Charlotte's. Now you're thinking, wow, this guy is like trying to protect Lolita, right?

Like an old boyfriend of her mom's. So Humbert writes it in the sense that he loses Lolita because Lolita wanted to fork this other old dude. So Humbert tries to track Lolita down, no avail, he even hired a PI and he was desperate. He wrote a poem for Lolita. Where are you hiding Dolores Hayes? Why are you hiding Darling? I talk in a days, I walk in a maze, I cannot get out, said the starling, Where are you riding Dolores Hayes? And where are you parked, my car pet? Who is your hero, Dolores Hayes? Dying, dying, the Lida Hayes, of hate and remorse.

I'm dying. Officer, officer. There they are, Dolores Hayes and her lover. Without your gun and follow that car. Okay, what? Meanwhile, he starts dating a 30-year-old named Rita to fill his time, and he calls her the simplest, gentlest, dumbest Rita, and then one day he gets a letter in the mail. Dear Dad, how's everything?

I'm married, and I'm gonna have a baby. I guess he's gonna be a big one. He will come right before Christmas. This is a hard letter to write. I'm going nuts, but we don't have enough to pay our debts and get out of here. Please send us a checkdad. We could manage with three or four hundred dollars or even less. Anything is welcome.

You could sell my old things. Please write back. I have gone through much sadness and hardship. And immediately, with his gun and his car, he starts making her way to her address, and there he saw it. Lolita, wearing a cotton dress heavily pregnant with her hair up in a ponytail. Her looks had faded, but she was still beautiful. She said, come on in. There she met her husband. And he sat down and told Lolita, come with me, please. I will give you the money. I'll give you more money." But 25 steps right now. Come just as you are. We will live happily ever after.

You mean you'll give us the money if I go back to your motel with you for the day? No, no. You have it all wrong. I want you to leave your husband and this awful hole and come live with me and die with me and everything with me He handed her an envelope with $400 and said you still get your money even if you refuse She smiled and said no You broke my life and Humbert drove away crying his love his Lolita was dead and she had told him the story of how She left the house or she left the hospital with Claire. And she said that this was the only man that she ever loved. And she knew it was love

when she was 10 years old and sat on his lap when she he was dating her mom. So another pedal. Yeah. So like he's writing it as if she really is like a nymphant and she's like falling in love with these old dudes, which is not the truth. okay? But that's how he writes it. So his only other thing to do now was to kill Claire Quilty, the abductor, the other peto, another family friend, and he was thinking to himself and he wrote, and I quote, had I done to Dolly, perhaps what Frank, the 50 year old mechanic, had done to 11 year old Sally Horner. That's the real case. He wrote the perpetrator, he wrote the victim,

into the book. And the case itself is so similar to the book. So he's inspired by the case? Yes, but when people ask him, he denies it and Lolita sold over 60 million copies whereas Sally Horner's case and her life story and who she was as a person is completely forgotten. Anyways, Humbert kills Claire and then he gets himself arrested.

The book ends with us finding out that Humbert started writing his new novel Lolita, but only wanted it published after the two of them were both dead. Humbert and Lolita. He died right before trial, she died two months later on Christmas Day, she died giving birth to her child, who was a son. And that is how the book ends. And that is the story of Lolita. I think when you hear the true crime case of Sally Horner, it gets like you see the resemblance

with Lolita, but it's not exactly the same. And it starts getting more and more sinister. Like the book feels even more sinister than it already feels, which we will be talking about the Sally Horner case on Wednesday for the main episode. I hope you guys enjoyed today's definitely more fictional episode. Let me know what you think. Don't forget this one. Don't forget Lelita because we'll be back on Wednesday and I will see you guys then. Bye! Bye!