The Allure of Nymphets chronicles famous and infamous age-discrepant relationships from Emperor Augustus to Woody Allen. And man's (i.e. hebephiles\ephebophiles) fascination with very young women (i.e. nymphets, Lolitas...) as shown in literature, films, plays, television, music, and the advertising industry.
We often re-post links to Reddit (reddit.com/r/nymphets) from this blog; however, in a classic case of "kill the messenger", we've been banned. Absolutely everything on The Allure of Nymphets is from the mainstream media and the arts. And for Reddit to ban a mainstream blog has to be one of highest forms of hypocrisy. We admit that The Allure of Nymphets is controversial, but a number of the communities on Reddit are explicitly pornographic. And that's an understatement. Mustang (2015) is nominated for an Oscar, Bunin's Dark Avenues is the most read book of short stories in Russia, and Shakespeare's Othellois about a bi-racial age-discrepant relationship, but they're too bad for Reddit. While almost every hardcore sexual fetish under the sun is good for Reddit. Go figure...
Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Mustang's (2015) co-writer and director, stated in a Huffington Post interview, “For me, it’s very important to look at the world through the eyes of girls. In cinema history we have always been looking at the world through the eyes of men,” Ergüven said. “For some men, if they don’t have sisters, they really can see women as objects.” But that is exactly what Ergüven did in Mustang. She objectified the nymphets. Mustang reminded me of Sinclair's Hollywood Lolita and Kincaid's Erotic Innocence and Child Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture. Those books, like The Allure of Nymphets, analyze the eroticizing of nymphets in the arts and that is what, in part, Ergüven has clearly done. For example, Lale, the youngest sister, who was played by thirteen-year-old Günes Sensoy, has her white cotton panties exposed while she frolics with her sisters. Later in the film Lale stuffs her satin and lace bra before she seductively parades her enhanced cleavage around the apartment.
Just like the nymphet in La Niña Santa (2004), who had teen anal sex with her cousin to preserve her virginity, one of the girl's in Mustang informs her sister that she has anal sex with her boyfriend to preserve her virginity. In addition to the raunchy teen behavior, the film briefly explores the dark side of ephebophilia as the middle-aged uncle has sex with two of his young nieces late into the night.
We weren't surprise to learn in the Huffington Postpiece that Ergüven had the nymphets watch Lolita to prepare for their "sexually explorative" roles, that James Franco opined in his Indiewire review that the Turkish film was "the best film of the year" and that, due to the allure of nymphets, the film has won and has been nominated for a number of prestigious awards including an Academy Award nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film. (See Fig. 1.) The plot summary on IMDB states "When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged." But the marriages weren't "forced", they were arraigned. Furthermore, the first orphan to be marriage was very happy to be marriage to the boy that she had been having anal sex with. It wasn't that the other sisters didn't want to get married, they just didn't like the men that were arraigned for them.
We wrote a review of Steele's How to Marry Nymphets for Men Over 35, but it may be worth analyzing how Hugh Hefner procured young girls over the years. Izabella St. James wrote in Bunny Tales Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion that she first saw the seventy-four-year-old Hugh Hefner when she was in her early twenties at the Sunset Room in Hollywood and was “…intrigued by Hef and attracted to him…” While Hef was surrounded by a bevy of beautiful young women, Izabella went to say hello. Consequently, Dr. Mark “Doc” Saginor, Hef’s physician and friend, invited Izabella to sit in Hef’s booth.
Hef and Izabella St. James
Izabella said that Hef was very polite, very sweet, had a warm smile, made her feel welcomed and relaxed. After drinks, Doc asked Izabella for her phone number and invited her to a “Fun in the Sun” party at the Playboy Mansion that was subsequently followed up by invitations to other parties at the Mansion. Approximately, a year after Izabella returned from studying abroad in Poland, she ran into Hef on Wednesday at Las Palmas and Friday of the same week at Barfly. After she went over to say hello, Hef invited her to join him and his entourage the following Friday which turned out to be a recruitment session. At the club the following Friday, a number of Hef’s girlfriends told Izabella “…how much fun they were having, how much money they made, and what a great opportunity it was to live at the Mansion.” Furthermore, they told Izabella that Hef was “interested” in her and that she should consider being one of his girlfriends. However, when Izabella was told about “the bedroom” she wrote I “…went home as fast as I could.” (We'll elaborate on “the bedroom” below but for now, "the bedroom" is where, after taking a Viagra pill and lathering in baby oil, the girls take turns “riding” Hef after he has been serviced orally.) Hef was persistent and invited Izabella out on several more occasions. She accepted his invitations, and that was when she began to be “…seduced by the Playboy lifestyle. The private jet, the parties, the limos, the Grammys, and the carefree lifestyle…” Eventually, Izabella and Hef had a bitter breakup which may explain why Hef changed his seduction approach with Kendra Wilkinson.
Hef and Kendra Wilkinson
Kendra Wilkinson wrote in her memoir, Sliding into Home, that after she posted her photograph on One Model Place, the initial call she received from Playboy was to ask her if she wanted to be a “painted girl” (i.e., nude waitress) at Hef’s seventy-eighth birthday party. She received another call two days later informing her that Mr. Hefner saw a photo of her and wanted to call her personally. And what did the almost eighty-year-old Hef say when he called the eighteen-year-old Kendra the next day, “I look forward to seeing you at my birthday…Also, I’d like you to consider being my girlfriend.” After meeting Hef for the first time Kendra wrote “He was very charming; he had a powerful way about him, and I liked it…he was just so cool. The way he acted and the things he said were unlike anything I had seen or heard.” If you are having trouble wrapping your fingers around exactly what charisma means, Olivia Fox Cabane explained it well in The Charisma Myth. She divided charisma into three main categories: Presence charisma – you should be in The Now and avoid constantly thinking and/or worrying about the past or the future. Specifically, when speaking to a nymphet, you should give her your undivided attention. Power charisma – you should have power over yourself and self-control (e.g., You have the discipline to work on your novel every day for an hour no matter what happens.), which will organically equate to having power over young women. Warmth Charisma – inwardly you should have a high self-esteem, self-confidence and self-compassion. Outwardly, you are altruistic (e.g., Like Hef, you believe that you are the best thing that could happen to a young woman and you want to give her the opportunity to be happy.). In addition, Kendra loved the fact that, despite the bevy of beauties that was surrounding Hef, he kept looking at her and they kept staring at each other. At the end of the night, Hef gave her a key, asked her to spend the night, and inquired, “Will you be my girlfriend?” What was Kendra’s response? “There was only one thing I could say: ‘Umm, okay.’” Why did Kendra say yes so quickly? Well, she said that their age difference was not a factor, nor was the fact that Hef already had, not one girlfriend, but “ten times more girlfriends than most”, but it was a factor that he boosted her self-esteem, he was “a true gentleman” and he was trustworthy. One may assume that most of Kendra’s reasons are counter-intuitive. Are you not surprised that the eighteen-year-old Kendra considered the seventy-eight-year-old Hef to be “a true gentleman” even after he asked her to “spend the night” and asked her to be one of his concubines - on the first night that they met. Well, it turns out that there are at least nine different ways for men to approach women. Here’s a list with examples: Direct - “You’re beautiful!” Indirect - “Can I get your opinion on something?” Guerrilla - “I want to make love to you. Immediately!” Inebriate - “Here, have another drink.” Trite - “Is that a mirror in your pocket, because I can see myself in your pants.” Open - “I’m the prize. Ravishing women will desire and approach me.” Arranged/Inner-Circle - “But your cousin’s a cardiology intern and lives in the Village - with no roommate!” Wine and Dine – “I have a huge loft in SoHo, so I usually take car service and park my black Porsche in the garage on Prince Street.” As you can see, Hef choose the Wine and Dine approach with Izabella and a combination of the Direct and Guerilla approaches with Kendra. Guerilla in the sense that he asked her to “stay the night” on the first night that they met and Direct in the sense that he asked her to be his girlfriend after only a casual conversation.
Hef and Holly Madison
Holly Madison provides another view of Hugh Hefner in her best-selling book Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny. She wrote that when she met Hefner he “He had the “nice guy” act down pat and it worked [...] he had a certain swagger. There was a gentlemanly air about him...” But that to reduce the high turnover rate of girlfriends, Hefner starting keeping his girlfriends “broken and needy”. Madison wrote “I found myself constantly trying to compete with the other girlfriends who were all caught up in who was prettiest.” And she opined that “It was in his best interest to have us wallowing in our own insecurities and pawing for his acceptance. Girlfriends that didn’t get along gave him the feeling of being fought over—and being fought over made him feel desire...” And how did the girls try to gain Hefner’s acceptance? Madison wrote “When he would complement a girl on a particular dress, pair of shoes, or even the way she wore her hair, we all felt the need to replicate if for our next evening out.” Allegedly, Hef particularly like to pit the old(er) Bunnies against the young(er) Bunnies. Madison was advised by an old(er) Bunny, “He always plays the oldest one against the youngest one,” Vicky explained, eager to share her expertise on the topic as we gossiped about the situation. “Tina may be his main girlfriend, but she’s older, so he likes to play on her insecurities by playing favorites with whoever the youngest one is.” Consequently, Madison shared that she started wearing clip-in extensions to give her “the long hair Hef preferred.” Furthermore, Madison wrote that Hef “was obsessed with women looking as young as humanly possible.” Madison even shared that “Kendra confessed: “I’m very insecure right now about my face. I get scared with Hef looking at me at the mansion and maybe thinking I’m ugly.” According to Madison, Kendra “had already hooked up with Hef” prior to him asking her to be his girlfriend.” She elaborated “In Kendra’s book Sliding into Home, she describes Hef asking her to be a girlfriend and handing her a house key before he invited her up to the bedroom. Now, I don’t know if Kendra is trying to sound extra-desirable, innocent, or if her memory is just super rusty, but of course that’s not how it really went down. Hef isn’t stupid. He never asked anyone to become a girlfriend before they joined him in bed. And he never made a habit of carrying around extra sets of room keys. Here's Madison’s description of "The bedroom": As Tina led me into the bedroom, I stumbled over and weaved through massive piles of junk covering the floor. It appeared that Hef liked to collect more than just women. Ceiling-high piles of videotapes, stuffed animals, art, and gifts littered the room. It was like an episode of Hoarders. But perhaps in his case it would be more appropriately titled Whore-ders. Two huge television screens projecting graphic porn lit up the otherwise dark bedroom. In the middle, a very pale man was tending to his own business (if you’re catching my thinly veiled innuendo) and puffing on a joint before passing it around to the nearest blonde. The girlfriends, in various stages of undress, were sitting in a semicircle at the edge of the bed—some kneeling, some standing, and some lying down. I sat myself on the edge of the bed—unsure of what to do next…My eyes had adjusted to the darkness and I could see that all the girls, backlit by the large screens, were putting on a show: …they were getting it on or making out with each other… The girlfriends, and Vicky, it seemed to me in particular, were desperate to bring as many new girls up into the bedroom as possible…. “Heeeef . . . don’t you want to be with the new girl?” Vicky screamed over the loud music as she reached over and pushed him towards me. Much to my surprise, my turn was over just as quickly as it started. By the time I was able to wrap my head around what was happening, Hef had already moved on to Candice, then to a few of his actual girlfriends before finishing off by himself, as he always did…Some of the girls leaned over and quickly picked Hef on the cheek…The girls began filing out of the room, offering Hef a few candy-coated “good nights.” Quickly, I pulled on my pajamas and followed Vickey down the hall and into her bedroom…Vickey ordered cheeseburgers and fries to the room as if it were any other night, but I passed out the food even arrived.” Yet, despite the fact that it did not appear necessary, Madison claimed that “Hef was a notoriously lecherous 70-something old man offering me Quaaludes that he referred to as “thigh openers.””
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Madison went on to write that “Most of the girls that ended up becoming girlfriends reacted the same way: they were very nonchalant about their “initiation.” And Madison related the history behind Hef’s biweekly night out on the town with the Playmates. “For decades, Hef was an infamous homebody. After all, he created his own version of paradise at the Playboy Mansion, so why would he ever want to leave? Throughout the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, it was extremely rare to see him out and about. In 1999, when he separated from his wife of almost 10 years, Kimberley Conrad, a few of his friends persuaded him to leave his compound for a night on the town. What happened next was a surprise to everyone. People went absolutely crazy to see this 70-something icon from another era at an L.A. nightclub. Shortly thereafter Hef instituted his biweekly club nights. Rolling Stone magazine called it “Hugh Hefner’s Resurrection.”” Interestingly, like a high level Hustler, Hugh was a recluse for many years; however, like a Mack he came to surround himself with friends and girls possibly to validate his existence. From the three former Bunnies we can cull the following about Hef's characteristics\techniques. Hef was: very polite very sweet warm welcoming persistent charming powerful cool attentive direct possessed a certain swagger had nice guy "act" pitted bunny against bunny, and played on insecurities
Chris
Dodge of the Utne Reader wrote “What's unusual and wonderful
about Gloeckner's writing and art is its unflinching engagement with
messy truths. The Diary of a Teenage Girl is shocking – and
refreshingly – frank, strongly conveying what it's like to be a
sexual girl [...]” And Peggy Orenstein of the New York Times
opined “Gloeckner is arguably the brightest light among a small
cadre of semiautobiographical cartoonist.”
Hillary
Chute, an associate professor in the department of English at the
University of Chicago, wrote in the foreword that “The Diary of a
Teenage Girl is a totally uninhibited object. The protagonist Minnie,
who lives in San Francisco and starts an affair with her mother's
boyfriend when she is only fifteen, keeps an expressive diary that
constitutes a large portion of the book [...] Diary stands as
a brave, unabashed take on the complexity of life at this age.”
In Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel, Minnie, who was a green-eyed sophomore, was described
as “[...] (about 5'4”), with broad shoulders and broad lips and a
little waist” with growing breasts.
Minnie's
affair began with Monroe, her mother's thirty-five-year-old
boyfriend, after Monroe rubbed Minnie's breast through her white and
blue striped flannel nightgown. Monroe was described as “the
handsomest man in the world” with blond hair, blue eyes and “two
big strong muscular thighs” who was into “waspy-looking girls
with small tits” and was a fan of David Hamilton. Minnie
“half-felt” that it was “rude and presumptuous” to think that
Monroe did it on purpose, but she backed away because she didn't want
Monroe to know how small her breast were. In addition, Minnie had a
“strangely calming feeling” that even if Monroe had intentionally
touched her “tits on purpose, that is was probably all right
because he's one of our best friends and he's a good guy and he knows
how it goes […]”
Two
nights later, Minnie's mother suggested that the ephebophile and
nymphet go out. They went to a nightclub where, after a number of
drinks, Monroe kept feeling on Minnie's “tits” before Monroe
said, “Oh look you're giving me a hard-on […]” Subsequently, he
put Minnie's hands down his pants which caused Minnie to shockingly
ask Monroe to “f_ck” her. Back in the car Monroe asked, “You
really do want me to f_ck you, don't you?”
On a
subsequent night, after Minnie's mother went to bed after viewing an
episode of Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Monroe
slipped his hands between Minnie's legs. Minnie attempted to return
the favor and give Monroe a “blow-job and everything else”, but
they decided that it was too risky. However, on the following
Tuesday, Minnie skipped school, Monroe drove her to his apartment in
the Russian Hill section of San Francisco where the nymphet gave her
mother's boyfriend her virginity. Minnie commemorated the event by
drawing an “X” in blood on Monroe's leg before Monroe said that
he couldn't believe that the fifteen-year-old wasn't a virgin. Minnie
shared that she hadn't even kissed a boy.
After
they had sex three more times, Monroe began to feel guilty about the
affair. Not only did Minnie feel “unguilty”, she became filled
with sexual energy. So much so that she picked up a cute
sixteen-year-old at the Golden Gate Park, began giving him a hand-job
in the aquarium which ended in the bushes where she “sucked his
d_ck” and “rubbed it until he came all over his brand - new grass
- green shirt.”
That
was the beginning of Minnie's affair and her journey into raunchy
teen behavior. Without going into details about the affair and
Minnie's numerous sex scenes, I'm going to share some relevant briefs
from the book:
When
Minnie was in the 8th
grade at the Hamlin School for Girls, she was in love with Sarah
S----. Minnie shared “I remember trying to accidentally rub my
chest against hers – we wore white cotton midi blouses and neither
of us wore a bra.”
Pascal,
Minnie's Manhattan based stepfather, slept with Elizabeth, Minnie's
sixteen-year-old friend – once when Elizabeth visited the east
coast and again when Pascal was in LA on business. However, Minnie's
mother wasn't surprised by the affair. She shared that her ex-husband
had an affair with his sixteen or seventeen-year-old tutee while he
worked as a calculus professor in Philadelphia. The news of Pascal's
affairs with nymphets made Minnie question Pascal's sincerity about
his ongoing concern about her well-being. She suspected that he
secretly wanted to have an affair with her as well.
Kimmie
Minter, Minnie's best friend, tried masturbating but it hurt due to
her three-inch, “always painted”, nails. In addition, Kimmie desired to
know the size of Monroe's d_ck. She got crisp one-hundred
dollar bills from old man Mr. Coltos for engaging in acts like
letting him rub suntan lotion on her bikini clad body in the backyard
while his wheelchair bound wife watched Dialing for Dollars in
the living room. In
addition, Kimmie used to baby-sit “for a mixed couple with two
little boys.” After Marcus, the black father, came home from
bowling while his white wife was still out “with her girlfriends”,
Kimmie gave him blow jobs after she put Vaseline all over her mouth,
because Marcus' d_ck was so big that it felt like her mouth was going
to rip at the corners.
Minnie
and Kimmie met with Marcus for the purpose of engaging in a three-way in a cheap hotel, but the
nymphets changed their minds at the last minute.
Minnie
loved black guys because “they look so tough” and “smell so
gutsy”.
Minnie
wondered if she could ever “fuck” her own father. She shared that
she used to have dreams about her grandfather. “We were both nude,
but I'd look down, and there was nothing there...”
At
least once, Minnie had sex with a teen (e.g., Ricky in Julius Kahn
Park.) and Monroe on the same day.
Minnie
went on a three-day trip to Paradise, California with Kimmie and her
mother to visit Kimmie's cousin Doreen and her husband. “Kimmie
was obsessed with the idea of fucking Doreen's husband,” which she
did – twice.
Minnie,
Kimmie and Monroe had a three-way in Monroe's apartment. Here's
Minnie's description of the event: “He f_cked both of us and he
came inside both of us […] We both sucked his c_ck and he ate us
out and we ate each other out […]”
Minnie
found boys her own age a “bore” and couldn't “get really
interested in them”.
Minnie
had a lipstick lesbian affair with Tabatha, a sixteen-year-old girl
with “a tough, feminine style.” Tabatha had a drug problem and
let two Black men, Arthur and his brother, have sex with a drugged
Minnie for a bag of Quaaludes. (Interestingly, the first edition of the book was even more graphic than the second. For example, in the first edition, there's a mind-bending picture of Tabatha having oral sex with a transvestite for drug money.)
Dr.
Wollenberg, Minnie's psychiatrist, prescribed her a Sunbeam Personal
Massager; however, Minnie found the orange vibrator to be “too
intense”.
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Phoebe Gloeckner
There
was an off-broadway stage adaption of the graphic novel and according
to the film's Wikipedia page, the movie received a 94% approval
rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 119 critics, with average
rating of 8/10. We're surprised that the film, which won an Jury
award at Sundance and was shown in Manhattan at the high-brow Lincoln
Center, was well-received. For one, the book had (obviously) a lot
more details and Minnie was played by twenty-three-year-old Bel
Powley instead a nymphet.
Lastly,
we'll end with a statement from the author, who is an associate
professor at the University of Michigan in the Stamps School of Art
and Design. She wrote in the preface of the revised edition “Minnie
is, first and foremost, a human being. That she is female and young
are secondary […] Although I am the source of Minnie, she cannot be
me – for the book to have real meaning, she must be all girls […]”
Dark Avenues
is a volume of short yet dark and erotic love stories by a Nobel
Prize-winning author Ivan Bunin. In The
Works by I.A. Bunin, Oleg Mikhailov
wrote that Dark Avenues
is "the only book in the history of Russian literature devoted
entirely to the concept of love" and this classic of Russian
literature is considered to be Bunin's magnum opus.
Considering the
ephebophilia and nympholepsy in Dark
Avenues it is interesting that Boyd
wrote in Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian
Years that since Nabokov’s “early
youth” he “cherished” and “valued” Bunin. And Field shared
in Nabokov, His Life in Art
an excerpt from an article that Nabokov wrote in The
Rudder (1929) about Bunin’s poetry
“The poems of Bunin are the best that has been created by the
Russian Muse for several decades…Every line of Bunin’s is worthy
of being preserved.”
According Alma
Classics, Dark Avenues,
if not the most read, is one of the most read volumes of short
stories in Russia.
In “Styopa”,
Krasilshchikov, a young merchant and graduate from a university in
Moscow, due to a “downpour” and “shaking thunderclaps”, led
his horse into an inn “kept by the old widower Pronin.” The cook
quit after a “row” with the widower before Pronin and the
labourer “went off to the town on business”; therefore, Styopa,
Pronin’s sixteen-year-old daughter, was left alone in the inn.
Styopa is described as
having a “half-childish voice”, “black eyes and [a] swarthy
little face.” In addition, Bunin wrote “The match was burning
out, but he could still see her shyly little face, the coral necklace
round her neck, her small breasts under the yellow cotton dress….She
was hardly his height and almost a child.”
Krasilshchikov gave Styopa
“a prolonged kiss on the lips, and his hands slid lower.” Styopa
responded by pleading, “…papa will come back….Oh, you mustn’t!”
Over half an hour later she went to sleep after they made love and
awoke in the morning “with her unbuttoned dress and disheveled
hair”.
After Krasilshchikov
informed Styopa, “It’s time for me to go.” She pleaded, “[…]
in the name of the heavenly father, marry me! I will be your lowest
slave! I will sleep on your threshold – take me!” However, by
“that evening he left in a troika for the railway station. Two days
later he was already in Kislovodsk.”
Here is the opening of
“Tanya”:
“She was working
as a housemaid in the house of his relation Madame Kazakov, who owned
a small estate. She was just seventeen years old; her tiny figure was
especially noticeable when she walked barefoot, her skirt swaying
gently from side to side and her little breasts moving under her
blouse […] her simple little face could be called pleasing, and her
grey peasant eyes had no beauty other than that of youth.” And
Tanya, an orphan, was described as a “half-childish girl” with an
“intoxicating scent of something rural and virginal”.
Petrusha, on his way back
to Moscow, had stopped to visit Kazakova in the country. In the
middle of the night “He lit a match and caught sight of her asleep.
She was lying on her back on a wooden bed, in a blouse and cotton
skirt - her little breasts showed roundness through her blouse, her
legs were bare to the knees[...] The match went out. He stood there –
and gently approached the bed...” “He moved her legs apart in
their tender warmth[...]” “[...] and he began to kiss her neck,
her breast, inhaling that intoxicating scent of something rural and
virginal. And she, through her tears, suddenly gave a spontaneous
feminine response – strongly, and it seemed gratefully, embracing
him and pressing his head to her breast.” After subsequent sexual
conquests with the nymphet, to Tanya's utter dismay, Petrusha left
the country never to visit again.
And in “The Crow”, a
father, an important government official, banished his son to
Petersburg and threatened to disinherit him if he didn't comply. That
was done after the father caught the son cavorting with the help,
Elena Nikolaevna. Nikolaevna was described as “young light-limbed”
with a “fine delicate face blushing in crimson patches – the face
of a frail blonde girl in a thin white blouse, with dark armpits and
still only faintly outlined breasts.” Subsequently, the son caught
the father with Nikolaevna, his “enchanting young wife”, entering
the Marinsky theater in Petersburg. “On her neck a little ruby
cross with a dark fire; her slim arms had already grown rounder and
were bare to above the elbow [...]”
