Introduction
With the success of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita-first as a novel, then as a successful film-we incorporated a new word into our language. That word is "Lolita," the teenage seductress in Nabokov's story, and it had come to be synonymous with any subteen or teenage girl who practices her sex wiles on much older men.
The Russian author tried with fair success to dig deeply into the psychological makeup of the heroine. She emerges as a prototype of sexual behavior that is much overlooked and misunderstood in our society. We tend to view such accounts only as "myths," but most psychiatrists and researchers into sex patterns and motivations think differently.
Such prominent and respected men as Kinsey, Freud, Ellis, and Krafft-Ebing have long believed that the most sexually aggressive age of a girl is between the ages of twelve and sixteen. Case books of psychiatrists, police, and social workers bear this out.
Our protective society is aimed at the protection of the juvenile. In courts of law, all minor children used to be considered "infants," incapable of being charged with offenses of a sexual nature or of being held responsible for participation in sex with older persons. In most states, those below a certain age (varying from sixteen to eighteen) are believed not qualified or equipped to think or respond as adults do.
Add to this the fact that most codes state that the female is doubly excused and guarded, as opposed to the male juvenile, and it is little wonder that we discovered that we have created a "bogeyman,"-a "monster" in human form- whom we tab the "dirty old man" figure.
In this book we intend to look at facts, as they are recorded from the lips of the young Lolita's who took part in sex acts with older men. We shall attempt to open the eyes of the reader to the fact that sexual urges are strong within each of us, beginning at an age when most of us believe that childhood games and sports are the desire of most children and the order of the day.
For example, take the following brief testimony from a closed courtroom trial in Oregon. The court was closed to all but related parties because of the age of the girl involved. You, the reader; may judge the guilt or innocence of one or both parties. We shall hear the fervent pleas of the defendant-the man accused of statutory rape and contributing to the delinquency of a minor-a man of integrity, but of weak will, whose life was ruined by one short hour of indiscretion.
"But, Your Honor-" Harry L. protested, "-I had nothing to do with starting this. Carol was simply a baby-sitter to me-a child. I treated her as a child. She acted like a child, until that one night. I doubt if any normal man could have withstood the sexy advances of this girl. That's my only crime, sir-being unable to refuse sex with a girl who knows more about exciting a man than most prostitutes do!
"I was driving her home. I couldn't help but notice that her dress was up unusually high and that she wore no panties. She wanted me to see it. She had unbuttoned the top buttons of her blouse, saying it was hot, so I could see most of the rounded curves of her breasts-and when she bent forward, I could even see the nipple."
The judge rapped sharply with his gavel. He spoke briskly to the defendant. "Mr. L., I have patiently explained the issues at stake here. This child is just that-a child. She cannot be held responsible for her actions. You are an adult man. You must take the blame for this act, under the laws of this state. I cannot continue to listen to you trying to malign the character of this child!"
"But, Your Honor," Mr. L. pleaded, almost in tears, "my life is on the line. My family. My wife. My job. Surely-"
The gavel rapping cut him off again. His shoulders slumped and he sat down beside his lawyer, tears welling up in his eyes.
He was sentenced to two-to-five years for statutory rape and one year for contributing to the delinquency of a minor child, the sentences to run concurrently.
Yet, here is the testimony of the girl involved, a thirteen-year-old nymphet who had known full sexual intercourse at eleven, and who admitted to having seduced many males whose ages ranged from fifteen to fifty-two!
These are facts as they came from the painted lips of Carol W. Most of them were given calmly, even boastfully. This girl is not demented nor retarded, nor is she a product of the slums or of a broken home. She is somewhat typical of the middle-class child of today in that she is not ashamed to discuss her sexual life. Nor does she feel any guilt about it, although she did try to shoulder the entire blame for seducing Mr. L., so that he would not go to prison.
"I wondered about Harry from the first night I went there to baby-sit for them. He was so good-looking, and polite. He treated me as if I were grown up, and I liked that. When we drove home that night-his wife was at home-I tried to get him to talk about sexy things. I asked him if he and his wife had ever been to a 'swappers' party.' He pretended he didn't know what it meant, and when I explained, he blushed and said that he hadn't-and that he never would attend one.
"I had my dress up high, and I could see him glancing at my thighs. I asked him to buy me a milk shake and a hamburger. He stopped at a drive-in, and we each had one. He kept looking at my legs, but he didn't do anything. I knew he never would. He was a real square. He was nice, but awful dumb about sex.
"I did that about three times, and then I began to get hot with him. My boyfriend was always over to see me when I baby-sat, and he would neck a lot and get me all ready for some real lovemaking, then he'd cut out. So, when Harry and his wife got there, I had usually masturbated once or twice, but I was still hot for the real thing. I'd been screwed a lot of times, but always by boys. Oh-one man was thirty-I was his baby-sitter, too, but he was so scared that he didn't even finish. He came all over my legs, while he was trying to put it into me!
"And the boys-they were just too dumb. All they did was play with my titties and then stick their finger up inside me. They didn't have the guts to try the real thing. I don't think they even knew how!
"But I knew that Harry did. I used to get a kick out of watching his hard on bulge his pants out, and how he would try to hide it from me.
"So this one night, I just reached over, unzipped his pants, and took out his hard cock. I played with it a little, and he finally reached over and began to feel my titties, then my pussy. I was getting hot, and I asked him to drive someplace where we could do something, and he did.
"We got out of the car and lay on the grass. He sucked my nipples first, I played with his cock, and, finally, he got on top of me and began to fuck me. He was sweating, and he seemed in an awful hurry, but he was good. I came twice while he was coming the first time, and then his pecker got soft and he pulled it out. But I wanted a lot more. I asked him to kiss my pussy, but he didn't seem to want to at first. He tried to wipe the come out of it with his handkerchief; then he got down between my legs and began to tongue and finger my cunt.
"He was like that when the patrol car cruised by and flashed the spotlight on us. He wasn't to blame. I wanted to do it. I enjoyed it way more than Harry did. I hope he doesn't get in too much trouble, because he really couldn't help himself, once I was turned on for him."
In spite of Carol's frank account of her seduction of Harry L., he was sentenced to prison while she was merely put on probation for six months during which a social worker (not a psychiatric case worker or a qualified juvenile counselor) visited her home once a month.
I talked with Harry L. I was most impressed with his parting words, spoken in an agonized, bitter tone. He said, "Mr. Benjamin, the girl was a woman in her body. She let me see her private parts-she almost threw them in my face She opened my pants and played with me. I ask you, as I asked the judge, what in the name of Kinsey is a man to do with such little sexpots?"
The answer is fairly simple, if the records are to be considered, for ninety-nine men out of a hundred would do precisely what Harry did: they would take the forbidden fruit, bowing to the gutter truism that "a stiff prick has no conscience."
That his is not an isolated case is easily proven. In 1968, more than 5,000 girls-who were under the age of 13-had babies out of wedlock. This year, authorities predict, more than 30,000 teenage and pre-teenage girls will give birth to illegitimate babies. It follows that if this many girls are "getting caught" there must be literally hundreds of thousands who are gambling with sex and who do not get caught.
"They mature much earlier," explains Dr. Joseph Michaelson, pediatrician at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. "In 1840, the onset of menstruation was 16 or 17. Today, it is not unusual for a girl to begin menstrual periods at age 11! We are, therefore, dealing with girls who have practically bypassed youth, and who think of themselves and conduct themselves, as women!"
Between the years of 1940 and 1960, illegitimacy increased by 112 percent! Since I960, the illegitimacy rate has almost tripled, and experts predict that in the year 1970, upwards of ten million illegitimate children will be born! This is not to say that all of them will be born to teenage mothers, but statistics prove that more than half that figure will be!
These cases that we shall discuss have been taken from real life. We hope that a study of them will somehow help understand this problem, and how it came to be. We also hope that steps may be forthcoming that will result in a substantial reduction in these figures in the years to come. These cases have been drawn from research, personal interview, and case histories, and have been thoroughly documented. Ironically, no fictionalization or dramatization is needed, for these girls under discussion are more shocking than any X-rated film or daring novel!
How serious is this problem of the subteen sexpots? How wild are they? The daily papers cannot tell half the story, for fear of "invasion of privacy" suits, because of the girls being underage and being considered as "infants." However, some of the more honest magazines are baring the details of how these "babies" are engaging in all types of sex acts, for money or for kicks. They also appear in the men's magazines as nude models. Girls' institutions abound with They are everywhere. Read your daily paper and see how often such items as this appear: Two local girls were arrested in a motel with three men by vice squad officers. Because the age of the girls are 13 and 12, their names will be withheld!
The problem is here, and it-is growing. The time for those who care to act to help these too-often unfortunate and misguided children-is NOW!