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English
Etymology
Calque from Japanese ロリータ・コンプレックス (rorīta konpurekkusu), from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita + English complex.
Noun
Lolita complex (plural Lolita complexes)
- The condition of being sexually attracted to young girls, especially in an older man.
1986, Roy Huss, The Mindscapes of Art, page 198:The counterpart of this problem in middle-aged men has been described by the second named, the Lolita Complex, bringing to mind Humbert Humbert’s lust for “nymphets” in Nabokov’s famous novel.
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