My Dad Published Lolita
The actual article title is &quot;How Would the Publishing World Respond to Lolita Today?&quot; The title here is a small bit from the article. Unless the submitter here is the author I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s appropriate to link this article under this title.<p>The article consists of the story of how Lolita was published in the US mixed with background on the political setting of the era it was published in.<p>The overall claim of the article seems to be that Lolita is still politically interesting and sparks debate.<p>I disagree with this conclusion. The world is all too fond of sexuality, and especially with controversial sexuality.<p>I am actually the author of a somewhat popular website involving written erotica, and what I&#x27;ve found is that controversial erotica is wildly popular regardless of the specific content. You could publish all manner of twisted crap today and it would mostly be met with praise.<p>There are, of course, puritanical haters that will go out of their way to whine and cry about it, but the world has reached a point where it is broadly understood that written erotica is freedom of speech and trying to ban it or make it stop is pointless.