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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita has been debated ever since its release. Tracing a man’s life before, during, and after a long love affair he has with an adolescent girl, Nabokov brilliantly displays a man full of inner and outer conflicts. Humbert Humbert and Dolores Haze, a.k.a Lolita, have become household names to many people. Lolita has been argued to be a pornographic novel, a psychological study, a look into Nabokov’s own life, and more. However, Lolita has many facets; it is not simply any of these things. Lolita is about sex, obsessions, love, control, and co-dependency. Although Lolita’s Humbert does talk about sex, actual sexual acts are only mentioned and not in detail, proving this is not a pornographic novel. Humbert talks extensively about wanting sex and his sexual desires. When alone with Lolita in his room one day, he says “Her adorable profile, parted lips, warm hair were some three inches from my bared eyetooth; and I felt the heat of her limbs [ . . . ] All at once I knew I could kiss her throat or the wick of her mouth with perfect impunity. I knew she would let me do so [ . . .] for now she was not really looking at my scribble, but waiting with curiosity and composure- oh my limpid nymp