On the poster for the film that made her notorious,
she peers over heart-shaped sunglasses while sucking
a red lollipop. The caption provocatively asks:
‘How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?’
Heavenly Nymphets
The answer, of course, is that they found Sue Lyon.
One of the few actors in Hollywood history not
allowed to attend her own film premiere,
She was just 14 when she was hailed as ‘the perfect
nymphet’, the ideal schoolgirl to play the title role
in Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous story of a middle-aged
man sexually obsessed with a 12-year-old.
It was a deeply dubious distinction which, by
her own admission, would ‘destroy’ her life.
Stanley Kubrick, the director claimed:‘From the first,
she was interesting to watch. Even in the way she walked
in for her interview, casually sat down, walked out.
She was cool and non-giggly. She was enigmatic without
being dull. She could keep people guessing about
how much Lolita knew about life.’
In fact, his Lolita wasn’t allowed to be too much
of an ingenue. Constrained by the industry’s moralistic
‘production code’ and religious campaigners, Hollywood
shrank from depicting Dolores ‘Lolita’ Haze quite
as young as Nabokov had made her in his novel.
To avoid trouble with film censors, Kubrick chose
Lyon — 5ft 3in tall — because she looked older than 12.
Nor was she flat-chested, as in the book. However, he
also made her markedly more flirtatious as she provided
the love interest for English academic Humbert Humbert,
played by 53-year-old James Mason.
Some critics accused the film of turning paedophilia
into a joke. Lyon played down the controversy.
It wasn’t as if she’d had to sleep with her ‘old man’
co-star, she reasoned naively. But in later life Lyon
wouldn’t be nearly so charitable towards the film
that made her famous.
Her life soon span out of control as she grew frustrated
with the public’s apparent inability to separate her
from the teenage temptress she played.
Nymphets Sexual Desire
Smouldering Nymphets
Be My Daddy
She’s My Sugar Babe
We’re witnessing a growth in the
sugar daddy, sugar baby phenomenon.
A sugar baby is a young woman who is in
a mutually beneficial relationship for
the purpose of having economic security.
The relationship may be platonic but is
usually sexual. Young men often form similar
relationships with older homosxuals.
Rich guys well past their prime have been
plunking down money for thousands of years
in search of a tryst or something more with
women half their age. Women, willingly or not,
have made themselves available.
Saddled with piles of student debt
and job-scarcity, current college
students and recent graduates are
selling themselves to pursue a
degrees or pay off their loans.
Sugar Babes
sugarbabes from Undina Kudinova on Vimeo.
An increasing number of young women have
taken to the web in search of online suitors
or wealthy benefactors who, in exchange for sex,
companionship or both, help with the bills.
Babes in the Nude
Have you tried appearing nude in public?
It’s a great way to lose your inhibitions.
After an afternoon of snorkeling in my bikini
I joined some other women and headed to the nude beach.
At the sign reading “No Clothing Beyond This Point,”
we simultaneously stripped down. At first, I felt
totally exposed and self-conscious.
But within a few minutes, that feeling began
to fade. Everyone on the entire beach was naked,
after all, and nobody gave me a second glance.
I even walked up to the bar and
ordered a drink — totally naked.
I kept thinking about the way I’d
grown up, with strict school dress
codes and Christian youth group
admonishments to dress modestly.
The me of 10 years ago would be astonished
by the me of the present. It was exhilarating.
