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We are awash in Lolitas - Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry. As Ira Wells says in a New Republic piece, “at a certain echelon of pop music megastardom . . . they are all Lolitas now.”

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Katy Perry is 30. Britney Spears is 33. Miley Cyrus is 22. Though they may have started out performing in school girl uniforms they're all adults. And was Miley ever really a Lolita-type? For that matter, was Nabokov's Lolita really what we think of now as a Lolita-type?

[Borges]

“was Nabokov’s Lolita really what we think of now as a Lolita-type?”

Not at all. That’s the thesis of this article.