i hate that people try to use lolita to justify their disgustingness tbh. that book is one of my favorites because, as i said in the replies of the more recent lolita ask, the book is NOT there to justify pedophilia. it's there to condemn it, explicitly. even with humbert trying to obscure the truth, it still comes out in everything that he does. it really pisses me off that people use it as justification because it just shows that they either didnt read the book or missed the point entirely.
I’m getting so many asks literally using this book as a parallel to a/m fanfiction under our first amendment rights. Freedom of speech is protected, but here’s the thing they don’t seem to understand about our first amendment:
Our rights end where another’s begins. What freedom of speech means is against the government. By this argument that they use of freedom of speech, someone is allowed to say grossly sexual, unwanted, comments in a workplace environment. Which they’re not.
If your freedom of speech infringes upon the rights of another human’s, like minor’s rights to not be depicted in a pornographic way, you are not capable to use the excuse of freedom of speech. If a work of fictional text is not considered a real work of literature you are subject to be prosecuted under the laws of obscenity. Freedom of speech tends to run very blurred with this law and is often used as an argument point for people who have written novels involving a minor in a sexual situation. It has happened before and will likely happen again, especially with the popularity of fandom culture in our generation.
Freedom of speech was meant for protesters. It was meant for people to say what they want about the government without worrying about the government trying to kill them for criticizing their policies.
If anyone is still confused and needs examples:
You cannot say you are going to detonate a bomb somewhere. (Yurlgers and others, please don’t tell me I have to source this). Like, don’t be that way. Lol.
You cannot threaten to murder or severely injure another.
Freedom of speech does not mean you can say whatever you want to if it is harmful to others. In this case explicit rated fanfiction involving a minor is harmful towards minors and is obscene.
