I don’t disagree. I don’t really care what folks read. I have read things like Mein Kampf which I find personally frightening and offensive. I don’t find anything of value in porn and I am underwhelmed by stories such as Lolita. I was only commenting on Heinlein’s viewpoint within the book itself. (and he probably personally felt that way). I disagree with Ayn Rand on so many things but I can still read things like Atlas Shrugged and come away knowing that I have been challenged.
Fact is reading a wide variety of things is good for the mind. If your faith and your ability to differentiate good from evil is somehow challenged by a book then perhaps you don’t have a very solid foundation
“Lolita” isn’t what most people think it is - they tend to be spooked by the subject, or get sidetracked by its conceit. Humbert is definitely not a hero and Nabokov didn’t like his character nor did he mean others to like him either, and every form of misbehavior gets its just deserts in the end. I find it a very conservative work in fact.
A character that Nabokov did like he treated very differently - see “Pnin” for one of them.
“Lolita” is indeed a great book, and deserves its reputation.