New 'Lolita'? 15 Year Old French Author Writes About Sexual Fantasies

Telegraph:

The book includes a passage where the protagonist Paloma, 14, indulges in sexual fantasies about Doherty.

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Comments

[jadednotoverrated]

07:14 PM on 08/31/2010

OMG, a 15 year old girl writes about sexual fantasies! Oh wait, I forgot this wouldn't be such a big deal if said author was a boy and was writing about sexual fantasies with a famous female. It's only the apocalypse when a girl does this. People need to stop furthering the double standard against girls nowadays. To the 15 year old girl, don't stop writing about your sexual fantasies, If I were you, I'd actually like the fact that so many people are getting worked up about this.

[johndpieper]

12:25 AM on 08/19/2010

It seems my comments about this story were offensive, so I must apologize for offending everyone. I was just expressing my opinion about the early sexualization of our teens. Particularly our female children. It was only my opinion that a 15 year old should be doing everyday teen things. Not writing about sexual fantasies. One last time, I'm sorry my comments were offensive.

[c-tom]

10:34 AM on 08/18/2010

Most teens think about sex.

[johndpieper]

09:58 AM on 08/18/2010

Apparently my original comment went over some readers' heads so I will repost my response to Galaxian who asked what my comment had to do with the story.

The author was 15 years old. Children are precocious, and sexualized earlier these days. If someone has a young daughter, whose sexual experiences are frequent and involved enough for her to write a book , the parents are doing something wrong. My siblings and I would never have been in this situation. Our parents were involved in our lives, knew where we were going every minute of every day. Parents today are so concerned about being their children's best friends that kids are no longer seeing them as authority figures and often times to not respect that authority. I see young girls in Target or Wal Mart and they have the shortest skirts I've ever seen. Some even show the very bottom of their little rumps. Parents can be involved in their children's lives without being tyrants. It's a difficult job, but it is the parents most important job. Our children should not be having sex at 15, let alone having it enough to write a book about it. I blame the parents. They MUST have ignored many of the signals children send when they are about to or when they are having sex.

Did you REALLY not know where I was going in my original comment?? I can't believe it. Perhaps you aren't a parent yet, or the parents of girls.

[johndpieper]

10:01 AM on 08/18/2010

Often times, children will say they are having fantasies about sex, but many of those children will be "testing" the waters to see how friends and families would react if they found out their child is engaging in REAL sex.

[Gneirre]

10:37 AM on 08/18/2010

Well said and you're correct. Parents these days want to be friends rather than being actual parents. I actually have a 15 year old daughter and I would be appalled if she were to write about such experiences. My first question would be, "where was I?". I believe in raising children with a healthy dose of fear. My four children know that I love them, I'm proud of them, and I will always be in there corner. They also know that I will question them, I want to know where you are, what you're doing, who you are with, what time you will be home, did you get permission from me AND your father, and do I know their parents? The motto in my household..."mom is not stable!!! DO NOT TEST HER!!!!".

[Gneirre]

10:43 AM on 08/18/2010

and I will always be in THEIR corner....
Sorry, it's the English major in me.

[johndpieper]

06:48 PM on 08/18/2010

I love the motto in your home!! That's very funny. We had one growing up that was similar. We would use the old cliche, "Don't poke the bear" or "you're poking the bear. You better be careful"!

[Gneirre]

08:57 AM on 08/18/2010

Not disturbing that a 15 year old would have sexual fantasies, but very disturbing that it's with Pete Doherty! I don't think I would like to have my 15 year old daughter write about her fantasies though.

[galaxian]

05:10 AM on 08/18/2010

HP sensationalizes the mundane like no other. Big shock: girl has fantasy and writes about it, one scene in a book.

[Nichole Boultas]

12:19 AM on 08/18/2010

Is this woman crazy to have fantasies about herself with a drug addict.

[johndpieper]

12:27 PM on 08/17/2010

We are producing children that are increasingly precocious. Parents often times are too concerned with being their childrens' best friends instead of being their parents and demanding respect. Most kids mistakenly believe they are adults and prepared for anything they might encounter. WE know they aren't. The group I hold most liable for the children's poor behavior is this parents.

[galaxian]

05:06 AM on 08/18/2010

What's this got to do with the story?

[johndpieper]

09:54 AM on 08/18/2010

My point is the author was 15 years old. 15!!!! Children are precocious, and sexualized earlier and earlier these days. If someone has a young daughter, whose sexual experiences are frequent and involved enough for her to write a book about them, the parents are doing something wrong. My siblings and I would never have been in this situation. Our parents were involved in our lives, knew where we were going every minute of every day. Parents today are so concerned about being their children's best friends that kids are no longer seeing them as authority figures and often times to not respect that authority. I see young girls in Target or Wal Mart and they have the shortest skirts I've ever seen. Some even show the very bottom of their little rumps. Parents can be involved in their children's lives without being tyrants. It's a difficult job, but it is the parents most important job. Our children should not be having sex at 15, let alone having it enough to write a book about it. I blame the parents. They MUST have ignored many of the signals children send when they are about to or when they are having sex.

Did you REALLY not know where I was going in my original comment?? I can't believe it. Perhaps you aren't a parent yet, or the parents of girls.

[DocManhattan]

05:31 PM on 08/19/2010

Errr, you're saying that becoming a published writer in your mid-teens is "poor behaviour"? These are fantasies - this is this young girl's inner life, as she stands on the verge of womanhood. A perfectly legitimate subject for literature and nothing to start huffing and puffing about.

[johndpieper]

05:48 PM on 08/19/2010

doc, you are correct about the first comment I made about this being the person's preferred type of literature. I should not have said that. I still stand by the remainder of my comments. These comment sections are for everyone to give their opinions of certain news stories. We are all entitled to our opinions. There are times where people's comments get aggressive or rude, but that is no reason for me to do the same thing. I pride myself on not being drawn into the anger or accusations in anyone's comments. I'm better at it some times than I am at others. This is perhaps one of those times I could have handled myself better. I apologize to everyone for saying something that offensive.