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The term originated in the 1955 novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov where it was the nickname given to the young girl, Dolores, with whom the narrator, Humbert Humbert, has sexual relations. [1] In the book itself, "Lolita" is specifically Humbert's nickname for Dolores, and "nymphet" is the general term for the type of young girl to whom Humbert is attracted, Dolores being one of them. In the novel, Humbert defines nymphets as being between the ages of nine and fourteen. However, commerce has preferred to use the girl's name, and to make "lolitas" attractive (in film adaptations and pornography) to a much wider audience than the small number of "nympholepts" which Humbert believes to exist. In the novel it is noted that the "nymphet" in a group of schoolgirls would not necessarily be the "loveliest" one in the group.
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Lolita was originally a name, and now a term because of the book. The Japanese word Lolita is indeed a loanword from this, and the word Lolicon is a shortening of "Lolita Complex".
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