Topic: Child-Abuse

Video: Tyler The Creator Punks The Wanted In A Really Dark Way

Video: Tyler The Creator Punks The Wanted In A Really Dark Way

Last night on MTV’s Punk’d, they let professional internet (and IRL) troll Tyler the Creator loose on such unsuspecting, innocent targets as 90210 actress Shenae Grimes and professional douche Scott Disick (okay, so maybe he had it coming). But by far the darkest prank was performed on British-Irish boy band The Wanted; Tyler made it boy band specific in a way that was equal parts brilliant and horrifying. More »

For The Record, Lolita Was Not Sexually Precocious — She Was Raped

For The Record, Lolita Was Not Sexually Precocious â She Was Raped

When I first encountered the literary classic Lolita, I was the same age as the infamous female character. I was 15 and had heard about a book in which a grown man carries on a sexual relationship with a much younger girl. Naturally, I quickly sought out the book and devoured the entire contents on my bedroom floor, parsing through Humbert Humbert‘s French and his erotic fascination for his stepdaughter, the light of his life, the fire of his loins — Dolores Haze. I remember being in the ninth grade and turning over the cover that presented a coy pair of saddle shoes as I hurried through the final pages in homeroom.

Although I remember admiring the book for all its literary prowess, what I don’t recall is how much of the truth of that story resonated with me given that I was a kid myself. Because it wasn’t until I reread the book as an adult that I realized Lolita had been raped. She had been raped repeatedly, from the time she was 12 to when she was 15 years old. More »