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>Be reading Lolita
>Get to scene where Humbert gets off to having Lolita's legs on his lap
>Suddenly aroused
>No, I am not a pedo

Does this make me weird? Did anyone else get aroused when reading Lolita?

>> No.2884894

>caring about yourself
finish the book you stupid nigger

>> No.2884897

The Reader is dead.

>> No.2884905

>>2884894

I fully intend to--the book is masterfully written and there's absolutely no way in hell I'm not going to finish it. I'm just wondering if sexual arousal is a normal reaction to this particular novel.

>> No.2884921

>>2884905
No, I didn't get an erection. I'm also not a pedo.

>> No.2884935

>>2884905
why do you care

>> No.2884949

If you get an erection and feel guilty the book is working

>> No.2884951

>>2884935
he wants to know if he is good or bad lol

>> No.2884956

I got a semi-chub a few times while reading it. Didn't feel particularly guilty though.

It's not as good a book as I remember from the first time I read it at university though - in fact I found it a bit irritating when I re-read it recently because it's /lit/'s forbidden fruit.

it's as harmless as fruit-tea, but people like to think it's edgy as fuck.

>> No.2884959

I haven't read Lolita but for some reason anything sexual in books gives me an erection.

>> No.2884971

>>2884959

I get an erection if I sit at the back of the bus over the engine. It's called being a dude, dude.

>> No.2884972

>>2884956
I dunno. I think it's pretty good so far. I'm enjoying it. I wouldn't call it super edgy, but I think it's a little better than merely being "fruit-tea."

Why didn't you like it as much?

>> No.2884975

>>2884972

He's progressed from seeking the edgy to condescending to anything he can possibly construe as edgy. Basically, he's doing a lot of projecting.

>> No.2884984

I got a boner from reading the Wild Boys it was weird but not really uncalled for because anything sexual arousing usually does it to me.

Applying if things are bad or good is useless especially with sexual arousing descriptions (I never read Lolita personally) if it is arousing then it is arousing it doesn't matter. And certainly you shouldn't start a thread on /lit/ about it.

>> No.2885008

>>2884984

Meh. I was more or less trying to gather if it was the situation or the description of the situation that got me aroused. Honestly, I've read the steamier parts of 50 Shades of Grey and those did literally nothing for me. I think it was because the writing was just so shitty. The woman's descriptions of even the kinkiest sex acts in the novel barely left me moist. I found it odd that I was able to get aroused to something like the scene referenced in the OP.

>> No.2885017

>>2884887
I'm gay, and even I got turned on by Lolita.

>> No.2885020
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2885020

Wait'll you read Ada. Find yourself scrambling to find JB threads on /b/ every 2 pages.

>> No.2885036

>>2885020
What book is this?

>> No.2885051

>>2885036
It has a subtitle and an extended subtitle, so you see it referred to a any of the following:
>Ada
>Ada or Ardor
>Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Anyway, it's another Nabokov novel. I'm currently reading it, tis badass, and not just in the "hurr durr, gotta go fap" sorta aspect, but it has gorgeous prose, and it is just so rich with literary technique, allusions, and other pretentious shit that I tend to enjoy.

>> No.2885060

>>>tfw nothing arouses you anymore

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>>2884887
>>2884949
>>2884956
>>2884959
>>2884971
>>2885008
>>2885017
>>2885020
>>2885051

>> No.2885139

>>2885051
It's also one of those fantasy novels that no one really thinks of when they're listing fantasy novels, because it isn't a fantasy in the Tolkiensian mold.

>> No.2885158

>>>/tv/

>> No.2885165

Of course I got an erection, that's what books/movies are supposed to do. Provide experiences that you normally couldn't IRL I mean.

>> No.2885192

I became hard multiple times while reading Lolita. I don't give a fuck.

>> No.2885197

All of Nabokov's novels give me erections.

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>>2885158

>> No.2885215

>>2884887
I got an erection.. from dat prose

>> No.2885320

>>2885139
Its more sci-fi than fantasy, and its barely that with the exception of one chapter.

>> No.2885395

surprise, you're feeling something the author probably intended for you to feel. Don't worry though, it's just a feeling. As long as you don't act on it, it's ok. Also, why limit your "feels"? I never self-censor and I think it would be a damned shame if you did.

>> No.2885405

cant tell if girl