Natalie Wood & Scarlett Johansson: Teen Sex in Chateau Marmont Hotel

Nick Ray & Natalie Wood

I recently re-read these stanzas in James Franco's "Chateau Dreams" from his book of prose Directing Herbert White: 

In '54, forty-three-year-old Nick Ray

Fucked fifteen-year-old Natalie Wood in Bungalow 2

Sam Kashner related in a 2005 Vanity Fair piece that 16-year-old Wood began an age-gap affair with Hollywood film director - only days after her "screen test": 

"Natalie Wood desperately wanted the part [in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)], but at 16 she had played only juveniles [...] [Nick] Ray [the film's director] was immediately drawn to Wood, Gavin Lambert recalls. “She was very young, and that was always attractive to Nick,” he says [...] “How quickly did Natalie realize that he found her extremely desirable, and how soon did Nick make his move? … The interview took place in the first week of February, and by the time she made her first screen test, ten days later they were lovers,” recalls Lambert."

In addition, Kashner wrote that subsequent to her affair with Ray, Wood's initiated another age-gap affair with an actor: 

"Wood’s affair with Ray awakened her sexuality—and emboldened her to initiate another love affair, this one with Dennis Hopper, who had been cast as Goon. “I was astonished,” Hopper later said. “I came from a very conventional, middle-class family in San Diego … and this was the 1950s, when girls who’d turned sixteen only a few months earlier just didn’t do things like that.” The sexually charged situation created ill will between Ray and Hopper."

Franco wrote that Wood was 15, but Kashner wrote that she was 16. I don't know Franco's source, but Hopper may have clarified the issue by sharing that when he began his affair with the nymphet, she had "turned sixteen only a few months earlier". That supports Franco's position, because it could take months for a film to start shooting after a "screen test".

Savannah Walsh wrote in a Vanity Fair piece "Natalie Wood Was Raped by Kirk Douglas, Her Sister Alleges in a New Book" (NOVEMBER 4, 2021) that Natalie’s younger sister, Lana, claimed that 16-year-old Natalie had been raped by 39-year-old Kirk Douglas at the Chateau Marmont, but that their mother demanded that Natalie “Suck it up” as not to ruin her Hollywood career. (I'm assuming no pun was intended):

“I remember that Natalie looked especially beautiful when Mom and I dropped her off that night at the Chateau Marmont entrance,” Lana writes in her upcoming memoir, Little Sister: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood (out November 9) [...] Lana claims that Douglas raped Natalie in the summer of 1955, around the time that both sisters were filming The Searchers. 

Their mother, Maria Zakharenko, had reportedly scheduled Natalie’s meeting with Douglas, hoping that “many doors might be thrown open for her, with just a nod of his famous, handsome head on her behalf.

According to Lana, she and Natalie never discussed what had happened until they were both adults. It was at that point that Natalie detailed her rape, telling her sister, “And, uh ... he hurt me Lana.… It was like an out-of-body experience. I was terrified, I was confused.” According to Lana, her sister and mother had decided that it would tarnish Natalie’s Hollywood standing to publicly accuse Douglas. “Suck it up,” were Maria’s words of advice to her daughter, per Lana.

Consequently, Douglas shared in his memoir that he "saw" Wood "many times" after they first me:

Douglas mentions Natalie in his 1988 memoir, The Ragman’s Son, detailing the night “a pretty little girl wearing a suede jacket hopped out” of a car and ran to him. “‘Oh, Mr. Douglas, would you please sign my jacket?’” he recalls her saying, per the AP. “As I obliged, the woman who was driving got out and introduced her. ‘This is my daughter. She’s in movies, too. Her name is Natalie Wood.’ That was the first time I met Natalie. I saw her many times afterward, before she died in that cruel accident.”

Scarlett Johansson & Benicio Del Toro

God knows how many nymphets had sex in the infamous Chateau Marmont, but Glenys Roberts related in a Daily Mail post that: 

"A 19-year-old Scarlett Johansson was so overcome by its heady atmosphere in 2004 that she couldn’t wait to get upstairs with [37-year-old] Puerto Rican star ­Benicio Del Toro and ripped off his clothes in the lift. ‘We were making out or having sex or something,’ she readily admitted later."

Songs About Nymphets

Below is a non-exhaustive list of songs that contain the theme of hebephilia\ephebophilia that was sourced from the Lolit[a] Age Gap Tumblr blog. 

The titles are revealing:

1. ABBA - “When I Kissed the Teacher”
2. Aerosmith - “Jailbait”
3. Ali Project - “Lolita in the Garret”
4. Archie Bell & The Drells - “Girl You’re Too Young”
5. Big Star - “Thirteen”
6. Big Star - “Thirteen”
7. Bruce Springsteen - “Child Bride”
8. Bruno Mars - “Young Girls”
9. Céline Dion - “Lolita”
10. Chuck Berry - “Sweet Little Sixteen”
11. Elton John - “Too young”
12. Eric Clapton - “Jailbait”
13. Eric Clapton - “Little Girl”
14. Gary Puckett and The Union Gap - “Young Girl”
15. Iggy Pop - “She Called Me Daddy”
16. Iggy Pop - “Sixteen”
17. Jane Birkin - “Lolita Go Home”
18. Jane Birkin - “Love Fifteen”
19. Johnny Burnette - “You’re Sixteen”
20. Jonny Lang - “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”
21. Kiss - “Christine Sixteen”
22. Marilyn Manson - “Heart-Shaped Glasses”
23. Maurice Chevalier - “Thank Heaven for Little Girls”
24. Michael Jackson - “P.Y.T.” (Pretty Young Thing)
25. Motörhead - “Jailbait”
26. Neil Diamond - “Girl You’ll be a Woman Soon”
27. New Order - “Age of Consent”
28. Oingo Boingo - “Little Girls”
29. Princess Superstar - “Bad Babysitter”
30. Red Hot Chili Peppers - “She’s only 18″
31. Rick James - “Seventeen”
32. Rilo Kiley - “Fifteen”
33. Ringo Starr - “You’re Sixteen” (You’re Beautiful You’re Mine)
34. Serge Gainsbourg - You’re Under Arrest
35. Sonny Boy Williamson – “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”
36. Steve Lawrence - “Go Away Little Girl”
37. Ted Nugent - “Jailbait”
38. The Beach Boys - “Little Girl” (You’re My Miss America)
39. The Beatles - “Hello Little Girl”
40. The Beatles - “Little Child”
41. The Commodores - “Young Girls Are My Weakness”
42. The Critters - “Younger Girl”
43. The Golliwogs - “Little Girl” (Does Your Momma Know)
44. The Heavy - “Sixteen”
45. The Rolling Stones - “So Young”
46. The Vandals - “Fourteen”
47. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – “Queen Nymphet”
48. Vesta Victoria - “An Old Man’s Darling”
49. Winger - “Seventeen”

THE PARIS REVIEW: Teleiophile "Marion", Matalon's Photos & Nude Teen Lipstick Lesbians

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Emma Cline's "Marion" was shockingly chosen by The Paris Review for their first collaboration with @topstories and photographer Molly Matalon who "created a suite of images evoking the mood of Emma Cline's 2013 short story, "Marion", a coming-of-age tale of a girl in California."

In "Marion", the 11-year-old narrator visited 13-year-old Marion on her California ranch in a house with "delicate Victorian detailing" where Bobby, Mario's father, kissed the nymphets "good night square on the mouth."

Marion liked to smoke hand-rolled cigarettes, wear bikini tops, and tease men:

"Marion was wearing her shorts over her favorite bright orange bikini, nubby fabric stretched tight across her breasts, her shoulders shining from sunscreen [...] Marion knew she was something pretty in that suit. Men stared at her, and she liked it. When Jack [Marion's father's friend] first came for dinner at the ranch, he would follow Marion with his eyes when she got up from the table. That day, when Jack watched Marion in the barn as he rolled a cigarette for her, I felt a flint of heat in my insides."

The girls were scandalously jealous of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, who was drugged, raped, and sodomized by Roman Polanski. 

"A thirteen-year-old girl. We talked about that a lot, what the girl might have looked like, how Roman Polanski knew her, how it had happened. Did she have breasts? Did she have her period yet? We were jealous, imagining a boyfriend who wanted you so bad he broke the law."

Marion wasn't sure if her father's friend liked her; so, some investigative work was done. 

"Marion had told me to watch him and tell her later if I thought he liked her [...] I took note when Jack looked at the door or at Marion’s slim thighs in cutoffs."

The story is set in the pre-smartphone era, but that didn't stop the nymphets from taking nude photos with a Kodamatic.

"Marion [...] took me up into the hills, where she stripped and had me take pictures of her naked body laid out on rocks. “You’ll be good at this, I know it,” she said. She tied a red ribbon around her throat like she had seen on one of the girls in Playboy."

Marion advised, "You keep men on their toes. You make them miss you," before she wrote "Jack's name on her body, on the bottoms of her feet, where the ink slid into the whorls. I saw it all when we changed for bed."

The nymphets returned to the hills for another round of nude pictures. This time the 11-year-old narrator, who looked "young, really great", posed before the girls shared a lipstick lesbian kiss.

“You look good,” Marion said, her face hidden by the camera. She was taking pictures from far away, squatting in the dirt. 

“You look young, really great.” 

Then she came close with the camera, so close she touched the lens to the tip of my nipple, then cackled and collapsed on the grass. 

“It’s hard,” she gasped. 

I started to step into my cutoffs, but Marion leapt up and came toward me. She threw her arms around my neck, loose like a child, and kissed me with her eyes open. “It’s okay,” she said. “Pretend I’m Jack. Look sleepy. Look sexy. Try to look like I do.” We were breathing hard.

Teens Teleiophiles Are Not Welcome in NYC Sexual Health Clinics?

I saw this advertisement on an Uptown train and was initially shocked by the homoerotic questions. "Top? Bottom? Versatile?"  

Subsequently, I was shocked by "NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU'RE INTO [...] Anyone 12 years and older can walk in [...]" 12 years and older?

Wait, so no matter what type of sex a nymphet is into, she's welcome at NYC Sexual Health Clinics?

"We need to have people not to have any concerns about taking the step of walking into a clinic like this," [Health commissioner Mary] Bassett said. "We want everyone to be able to have a healthy and fulfilling sexual life, one that does not carry the burden of disease or fear." (Italics mine)

But, the health commissioner isn't including everyone in the $1 million bus kiosk and subway car ad campaign, because clearly teleiophiles aren't welcome. 

A nymphet could be like Shameless' Karen, a high school sophomore, who confessed at a Purity Ball that at the age of 13 she started having oral sex with three or four boys. And she shared that she began to indulge in orgies and lesbian strap-on dildo sex by the 8th grade.

However, if the nymphet got a STD from an (acting) ephebophile - even if the nymphet initiated the sex and they were married with her parent's consent, the ephebophile would be on the front page of the Post along with the nymphet's parents for giving consent. 

Bassett said, "We need to connect with the fact that people engage in sex because it's part of being human and fun."

But who determines what type of sex is "human"? A 12-year-old "bottom" is "human", but a teleiophile and her husband are inhuman? Are Elvis and Priscilla considered inhuman by the NYC Sexual Health department? And what would have happened to Elizabeth Taylor if she would have walked into a NYC clinic?

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[UPDATE] Famous Ephebophile: Elvis Presley

24-Year-Old Elvis Presley &14-Year-Old Priscilla Wagner (Presley) 

According to Guralnick and Jorgensen’s Elvis: Day by Day, twenty-four-year-old Elvis met fourteen-year-old Priscilla on September 13, 1959. Everything Elvis by Helen Clutton relates that Elvis met the nymphet at a party at his home in Germany while he was in the military. Interestingly, Suzanne Finstad related in Child Bride:The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley that Priscilla had sex with Curry Grant, a twenty-seven-year-old friend of Elvis, in exchange for being introduced to the singer. 

Albert Goldman wrote in Elvis that, despite Priscilla's parents initial objections to the relationship, they gave the relationship their blessings after Elvis promised to bring Priscilla home early. Subsequently, Elvis and Priscilla were together on a regular basis until he left Germany in March of 1960. 

Guralnick and Jorgensen wrote that twenty-seven-year-old Elvis and seventeen-year-old Priscilla reunited in 1962. And per William Heinemann's Down at the End of Lonely Street, to avoid the legal ramifications of having an ongoing affair with a minor, Elvis reluctantly married Priscilla on May 1, 1967.

However, Priscilla was far from Elvis' only nymphet. According to Alanna Nash's Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him, after Elvis left the military he began a six-year relationship with Sandy Ferra, which began when she was fourteen-years-old. However, Elvis frequently spoke to Priscilla on the phone while she remained in Germany. But once Priscilla arrived at Graceland, Elvis would have her dress up as a schoolgirl and videotape her having lipstick lesbian sex with another nymphet. Lastly, two years before his death, Elvis began a relationship with fourteen-year-old Reeca Smith. 

Elvis and a Bevy of Nymphets

Motörhead's “Jailbait”: "Hey Baby You're a Sweet Young Thing"

Jailbait” is on Motörhead's fourth album Ace of Spades. Song writers tend to use innuendos or a more conservative and cautionary tone when they write about nymphets, but the lyrics of “Jailbait” leave no doubt about  Motörhead's attraction to jailbait, which Merriam-Webster defines "as a girl under the age of consent with whom sexual intercourse is unlawful and constitutes statutory rape":

Hey baby you're a sweet young thing,\Still tied to Mommy's apron strings,\I don't even dare to ask your age,\It's enough to know you're here backstage,\You're Jailbait, and I just can't wait,\Jailbait baby come on

One look baby, all I need,\My decision made at lightning speed,\I don't even want to know your name,\It's enough to know you feel the same,\You're Jailbait, and I just can't wait,\Jailbait baby come on

Hey babe you know you look so fine,\Send shivers up and down my spine,\I don't care about our different ages,\I'm an open book with well thumbed pages,\You're Jailbait, and I just can't wait,\Jailbait baby come on

"It's enough to know you're here backstage" is revealing, because we know that nymphet groupies are a reality. For example, we know that David Bowie "De-Virginized" 15-Year-old Lori Maddox and Iggy Pop deflowered 13-year-old Sable Starr. 

David Bowie and Lori Maddox

“Jailbait” was released in 1980 on Ace of Spades, which reached number 4 in the United Kingdom and went Gold in 1981.

Hebephilia, Ephebophilia and Age-Gap Relationships in THE STORIES OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV

I didn't include a number of Nabokov's short stories in my blog post and journal article on the hebephilia\ephebophilia found in Nabokov's writings. Here's a more complete list:

In “The Fight”, a writer sunbathing on a German beach is intrigued by Mr. Kraus. The writer discovers that Mr. Kraus owns a tavern where he is assisted by Emma - “a young girl in a checkered dress, fair-haired, with pointed pink elbows”. Emma’s lover is an electrician who has a “malevolent wrinkle beside his mouth”. The writer narrates that what he likes the most about Emma, with her “small birdlike face” and “vapid” and “tender eyes” is the way that she looks at her lover “as he lazily leaned on the bar.” After Emma’s father and her lover gets into a brawl, the writer couldn’t resist consoling the young girl by stroking and kissing her kitchen scented fair hair. Interestingly, “The Fight” was also published in The New Yorker on February 18, 1985.

In “A Nursery Tale”, on his ride to work, Erwin habitually gazes through the tram's window and picks girls for his imaginary harem. However, the young man gains the opportunity for his dreams to come true after he meets Frau Monde, a Devil, who promises Erwin that he can have all the girls he wants upon “cushions and rugs” in “a villa with a walled garden” but that it's “essential and final” that he selects an odd number of girls between noon to midnight. 

The next day Erwin starts collecting slave girls. Here's a partial list:

A maiden in a white dress with chestnut hair and palish lips who was playing with her “fat shaggy pup”

“[T]wo young ladies-sisters, or even twins [...] Both were small and slim [...] with saucy eyes and painted lips.” Erwin referred to the Twins as “Gay, painted, young things.”

A girl with gray eyes with a slight slant and a thin aquiline nose that wrinkled when she laughed

A girl at a small amusement park who wore a scarlet blouse with a bright-green skirt

Four girls inside the amusement park's arcade who wore jerseys and shorts with “magnificent legs, naked nearly up to the groin” 

“A child of fourteen or so in a low-cut black party dress .” She was walking with a tall elderly man who was a “famous poet, a senile swan, living all alone in a distant suburb”.

I won't reveal the identity of the last girl, but I will share her response to Erwin, which was, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself […] Leave me alone.” Her response was due to “that which changes a man's life (i.e., penis) with one divine stroke”.

When Nabokov translated Skazka before it was published in Playboy (1974) and Details of a Sunset (1976), he aggressively titled it “A Nursery Tale” and noted in Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories that when he was translating the story he was “[...] eerily startled to meet a somewhat decrepit but unmistakable Humbert escorting his nymphet in the story I wrote almost half a century ago.”

In “Terror”, the poet’s mistress is described as a “naive little maiden” with “unassuming prettiness, gaiety, friendliness”. Their affair lasted almost three years until the poet departed by train only to have to return to her bedside and consequently save himself from “insanity.”

In “The Aurelian”, Paul Pilgram, a “flabby elderly man”, had a habit of ordering a drink and filling his pipe after entering the town’s “small bar”. And “[i]f the bartender’s daughter, a pretty freckled girl in a polka-dotted frock, happened to pass close enough, he had a go at her elusive hip, and, whether the slap succeeded or not, his gloomy expression never changed, although the veins on his temple grew purple.”

Early in “A Dashing Fellow” the protagonist asked, “What is better: the experience of a sexy thirty-year-old brunette, or the silly young bloom of a bright curled romp?” But by the end of the short story he exclaimed, “That old bitch. No, we like only small blonds - remember that once for all.” Nabokov wrote in A Russian Beauty and Other Stories that “A Dashing Fellow” was rejected by Rul’ (Berlin) and Poslednie Novosti (Paris) for being “improper and brutal” before it was published in Segodnya (Riga) and in the December 1971 issue of Playboy.

In “Lips to Lips”, Ilya Borisovich, a naive aspiring novelist, is writing a novel in which “elderly” Dolinin meets Irina,  “a girl in black” with a “supple young body”, at the theater. After the move to Dolinin’s flat, Irina exclaims, “Take me, take my purity, take my torment [...] because I love you.” “I suppose he’ll deflower her,” mused Euphratski “an émigré journalist”. One of the many issues with Ilya’s novel is that he too frequently uses the adjective ‘“young’ (feminine gender), replacing it here and there by ‘youthful’”.

In “Music”, Victor notices his estranged wife in the audience at the music hall. He reminisced about the time they were “talking about some trifle” when she interjected, “‘Let’s separate for a while. We can’t go on like this.’ The neighbors’ little daughter burst into the room to show her kitten (the sole survivor of a litter that had been drowned.)” Victor’s wife confessed that “The first time [that she had cheated on him] had been in the park, then at his place.” (italics mine). (I was ripped about adding “Music”, but my gut tells me that “kitten” is a Nabokovian sexual innuendo\pun.)

An excerpt from “Perfection” reads “During those first warm days everything seemed beautiful and touching: the leggy little girls playing hopscotch on the sidewalk, the old men on the benches, the green confetti that sumptuous lindens scattered every time the air stretched its invisible limbs.” The old men on the benches reminded me of the protagonist in The Enchanter who “[...] seated himself on a bench in a city park” before he spotted his nymphet.

Count Konstantin Godunov-Cherdyntsev of “The Circle” “was spending the summer at Leshino, his estate in the Government of St. Petersburg, with his young wife (at forty he was twice as old as she).”

In "Solus Rex” “Prince Fig enjoyed a kind of smutty popularity [...] The more lewdly Fig romped, the louder folks guffawed [...] A characteristic detail: one day when the prince, passing on horseback, a cigar between his teeth, through a backwoodsy hamlet, noticed a comely little girl to whom he offered a ride, and notwithstanding her parents’ horror [...] swept her away [...] the child returned after an hour’s absence, holding a hundred-krun note in one hand, and, in the other, a fledgling that had fallen out of its nest in a desolate grove where she had picked it up on her way back to the village.”

Lastly, the poet of “THAT IN ALLEPO ONCE…” had a “much younger” wife but “[...] not as much younger as was Nathalie of the lovely bare shoulders and long earrings in relation to swarthy Pushkin.” After he “held her slender young hips (she was combing her soft hair and tossing her head back with every stroke)” she informed him, “I’ve been lying to you, dear [...] Ya Igunia. I stayed for several nights in Montpellier with a brute of a man I met on the train. I did not want it at all. He sold hair lotions.”

Reportedly,  Natalia Goncharova was sixteen-years-old when she first met Pushkin before they married in 1836. I don’t have a reputable source for this claim; however, Gerschenkron related in “A Manufactured Monument?”, his review of Nabokov’s Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse, that Nabokov “goes to a considerable length to discuss the - possibly divided - ownership in real life of a pair of lovely feet whose beauty Pushkin sings in what Nabokov calls “Pedal Digression” (I, 24)” Gerschenkron states that the possible owner of the “lovely feet” was Maria Raevskii who would have been “only thirteen-and-a-half years old (II, 119)”. (And in a footnote, Gerschenkron intriguingly shared that in the Ukraine Pushkin “flirted with the twelve-year-old daughter of his mistress Davydova, and in Bessarabia with the thirteen-year-old daughter of a Moldavian noble.”)

“THAT IN ALLEPO ONCE…” is a line from Shakespeare’s Othello, which  is about an age-discrepant marriage between Othello, a North African general of the armies of Venice, and Desdemona, the "exquisitely beautiful" young daughter of Brabantio, a Venetian senator. Shakespeare doesn't give the exact ages of Othello and Desdemona, but Othello is described by Iago, the villain of the play, as an "...old black ram..." while Desdemona is described as a “young virgin” - a "little white lamb [with] beautiful skin, whiter than snow and smooth as the finest marble."

Titian's VENUS OF URBINO for the Duke's Teen Bride

Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538)

According to the second volume of Kleiner's Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538) was commissioned by Guidobaldo II della Rovere, the Duke of Urbino. 

The erotic oil may have been commissioned to celebrate the Duke's 1534 marriage to 11-year-old Giulia Varano.

Per Hale's Titian: His Life, Angela del Moro, a Venice courtesan, was the model for the painting that currently sits in the Uffizi Gallery Museum in Florence. 

I haven't been able to verify Moro's age, but a City College of New York coed related to me that her art professor shared that Moro was 15-years-old when she modeled for Titian. 

NEW YORK Magazine: The Hottest [Teen] Models in Town

New York September 29, 1980

The Beach Boys' "Little Girl" Just in Your Teens

"Little Girl (You're My Miss America)" is a song on the The Beach Boys' album Surfin' Safari (1962). Here are some of the lyrics:

Little girl just in your teens 

(you're my Miss America)

Little girl you're in my dreams 

(you're my Miss America)

You're so sweet, you're so fine

Dear won't you be mine

Everybody knows it

Blue eyes, blond hair

Lips like a movie star

The Wikipedia entry for the song correctly but, a bit, misleadingly states "'Little Girl' is a simple song about a teenager's infatuation with a girl."

The song was co-written by Vincent Catalano who was in his mid-twenties when the song was released. Dennis Wilson was a mere 18-years-old when the song was released, but an analysis of the song reveals that the "Little Girl" was "just in" her teens, which implies that the "sweet" and "fine" nymphet with "Blue eyes, Blond hair [&] Lips like a movie star" was just shy of being 12-years-old "in my dreams".

Famous Age-Gap Marriage: Jerry Lee Lewis (22) & Myra Williams (13) | The Teen Bride

Myra (13) and Jerry Lee Lewis (22)

In 1958, after becoming famous for his hit songs "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire", Jerry Lee went on a six-week-tour of Britain. Upon arriving at the airport, Paul Tanfield, a reporter with the Daily Mail, noticed a nymphet in Jerry's entourage.

“I'm Myra. Jerry's wife.” the nymphet replied in response to Tanfield's inquiry.

“And how old is Myra?” Tanfield asked.

“Fifteen.” Jerry replied.

The news that 22-year-old Jerry Lee was married to a 15-year-old was not well received by British citizens, and it got worse for Jerry Lee when it was revealed that Myra was not 15. Not only was Myra 13 when they married, but she was Jerry’s first cousin too. And it turned out that Jerry Lee may have still been married to his first wife.

Upon receiving the startling news, the media and angry British citizens besieged the age-gap couple's plush Westbury Hotel. After Jerry Lee's marriage was investigated by the British police, the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the House of Commons, Jerry Lee was asked to leave Britain after only three performances.

Jerry Lee Lewis Interview After Return to the US

After returning to the States, Jerry Lee dodged questions about his age-gap marriage to his cousin. However, disc jockeys in the States and around the world refused to play Jerry Lee's music. Subsequently, he was reduced to being a two-hit wonder, and he went from making $10,000 to $100 a night per performance.

The age-gap couple was married for 13 years, and per Jessica Gelt's Los Angeles Times piece "Jerry Lee Lewis’ teenage bride speaks out [...]" (October 29, 2022), Maya clarified in an interview given after Lewis' death in 2022, "I was called the child bride, but I was the adult and Jerry was the child [...] I didn't miss a beat. I took care of everything."

 

Jerry Lee Lewis Full Interview After Return to the US

THE PARIS REVIEW's Best of 2016: A Teen Prostitution Post

Best of 2016: Max Nelson on "Fanny Howe," one of the most inscrutable erotic novels in history https://t.co/OkWzRR0Rum

— The Paris Review (@parisreview) December 28, 2016

The Paris Review is on vacation until after the holidays, but they posted "[...] we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday!" And what is one of their favorite pieces? It is Max Nelson's May 5, 2016 post "Overdrafts of Pleasure" that is about John Cleland’s "[...] two-volume novel called Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, published when he was in debtor’s prison between 1748 and 1749 [...]" 

In the novel, Fanny entered the brothel when she was fifteen, which preceded her "sexual initiation" that involved lipstick lesbian sex with a seasoned prostitute. Fanny's first customer was a "[...] debauched elderly caller “with a yellow cadaverous hue”."

John Cleland’s “Fanny Hill”: An Erotic Novel with Morals https://t.co/HdJyyHzirX pic.twitter.com/u3VQhZXNIq

— The Paris Review (@parisreview) May 5, 2016

SECRET LOLITA: Italian (Pre)Teen Prostitutes Inspire Nabokov's LOLITA?

Alex Beam wrote in The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship that in June of 1948, Wilson sent Nabokov a copy of "Confession Sexuelle d'un Russe du Sud" that was deemed by psychologist Havelock Ellis to be an authentic memoir of the "sexual  odyssey" of a wealthy Ukrainian engineer. 

"Confession Sexuelle d'un Russe du Sud" was translated into Secret Lolita: The Confessions of Victor X by Donald Rayfield - an emeritus professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. Here's a conservative excerpt that describes two of the Italian pre-teen prostitutes:

"I was sent with some colleagues to Naples by my firm’s management [...] If you buy something in a shop, the shopkeeper, who may look quite respectable, will offer to show you a little girl of twelve, ten or eight. Pimps accost strangers in the street offering them little girls [...] Families who are not badly off and who have some standing, petty shopkeepers, clerks, tailors, cobblers also traffic in their prepubescent girls. For the reasonable price of twenty, thirty, forty francs you are just allowed to have fun or to play with them.

If you want to deflower one, that costs more [...] 

The two little girls were both as expert as each other [...] They were very sensual but, oddly enough, the younger one was even more so than her sister. [S]he had violent orgasms when she looked like someone in death-throes, and secreted copiously. She adored obscene talk, photographs and reading, and used her erotic talents enthusiastically. When I came to the house, her face beamed with joy. I remember the deeply heartbroken, unhappy look she had one day when, to save money, I said I would made do with just the older girl. When afterwards I came out of the bedroom after that session, I saw the younger girl sitting on a chair by the door listening, her face sallow with vexation, trembling all over with frustration. She was overjoyed the next time when it was her turn to be asked for. She started dancing."

What we know is that Wilson and Nabokov, to Vera's dismay, exchanged erotic literature. At least some of the bawdy texts were non-fiction and profiled nymphets. Nabokov was so fond of this particular text that he wrote about it in the English and Russian versions of his autobiography. 

For example, In Speak, Memory he wrote that the "'sexual confessions' (to be found in Havelock Ellis and elsewhere), [...] involve tiny tots mating like mad."  And we know that "Confession Sexuelle d'un Russe du Sud", according to Wilson, "no doubt inspired Lolita". 

Hailee Steinfeld: A Teen's Joy of Masturbation

18-year-old Hailee Steinfeld's debut single "Love Myself" (2015) is about teen masturbation. In the song, Hailee sings about keeping the tempo right, nice and slow, anytime - day or night. Here are some lyrics:

"Love Myself"

When I get chills at night
I feel it deep inside without you, yeah
Know how to satisfy
Keeping that tempo right without you, yeah

Pictures in my mind on replay
I'm gonna touch the pain away
I know how to scream my own name
Scream my name

(I love me)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(Hey)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(I love me)
Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Anytime, day or night
(I love me)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(Hey)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(I love me)
Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Anytime that I like
(I love me)

I'll take it nice and slow
Feeling good on my own without you, yeah
Got me speaking in tongues
The beautiful, it comes without you, yeah

I'm gonna put my body first
And love me so hard 'til it hurts
I know how to scream out the words
Scream the words

Unlike middle-aged feminists, we at the Allure of Nymphets admit that nymphets have sexual fantasies and masturbate, but, in an effort to get some streams via the allure of a nymphet, it's still a bit shocking to see a teen gyrating in downtown Los Angeles while singing about her joy of masturbating. 

Subsequently, Steinfeld starred in The Edge of Seventeen (2016). Here's a bit of Wikipedia's plot summary:

[17-year-old] Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) continues to crush on Nick (Alexander Calvert), an older mysterious guy who she has only met once at a local pet store. She is constantly stalking his social media account and is only interested in his outside appearances.

In the heat of the moment, she writes a sexually explicit text to Nick, but decides against sending it. She accidentally hits "send" and is mortified.

Nadine (Steinfeld) | The Edge of Seventeen

In one scene, during lunch in the high school's cafeteria, Nadine asked her best friend, "What if I liked your dad? What if I gave your dad a hand job?"

Emily Dickinson (Steinfeld) | Dickinson

And most recently, Steinfeld played Emily Dickinson in Dickinson on Apple TV+. In season one, to be become the world's greatest poet wasn't the only thing Emily wanted. In addition, Emily wanted to maintain a teen lipstick lesbian affair with her brother's fiancé and an age-gap affair with Benjamin Newton - her father's law clerk. And Emily enjoyed opium, which led to a house party with twerking nymphets.