Hollywood Lolita: The Nymphet Syndrome in the Movies

From the moment the first on-reeler flickered uncertainly across the movie screen, Hollywood has recognized and exploited a sexual taboo that has always existed – the erotic attraction felt by older men for very young girls. As a result, the movie industry has coaxed, bullied, and groomed a host of enticingly precocious starlets into existence. Beginning with such virginal flowers of the silent screen as Mary Pickfor and the Gish sisters, forever in peril of a fate wors than death… most recently the trend has been toward the blatant exploitation of the premature sexuality of such starlets as Natassia Kinski and Brooke Shields…