The term "Lolita" is used to define a young girl as "precociously seductive." It is derived from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, which depicts the narrator's sexual obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl named Dolores, for whom his nickname is Lolita. Unlike Nabokov, however, contemporary writers typically use the term "Lolita" to portray a young girl who attracts adult desire as complicit rather than victimized.
