Comments on: Revealing Nymphet Fantasies and Fashionistas - A cultural story …

By: Landon

Landon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:09:43 +0000

Beautiful without being vulgar.

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:57:23 +0000

I am a teenager myself and I never thought of it that way. I am attracted by the pinks and the cute bras and PJs. Now I see it all differently. Thank you for showing me another view.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:19:57 +0000

I agree that women should dress there age, and with most of the comments you made
about a shift in marketing to more submissive looks for women, showing girls a younger
version of sexuality that is damaging to their self esteem, and their out look on sex in
general. However, some of the comfortable pjs, and fun prints, with soft
fabrics reflect not a younger look, but a more laid back one. I think if comfy can
be sexy that’s great. The pink underwear is marketing to a younger crowd, but some
of it is, I think, because VS wants to widen their market base, so they have crossed
over from lingerie to underwear, makeup and nigh wear as well, finding now mom and
daughter can shop together. Women have been been doing a whole gamete of things lately
to try and look younger, plastic surgery, acting immature, and this is an extension
of that, they try to relive their younger years by hearkening back to being a little
girl. For most guys, I think that being a confident sexy women, in pink panties, or
in dark red lacy ones, will be attractive, it is just the pressure put on women, by
I don’t know who, to look younger, that makes them buy these things, not so much
men’s desires.

By: Elise

Elise — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:00:47 +0000

Actually, what Victoria Secret is doing is called “Brand Loyality.” If you market to young females when they are pre-teens they will stay with the brand when they are ready for the C.F.M. panties & bras when they are older. Obviously, you don’t want to market thongs to a 12-year old, so you go with the pink, slumber party theme.

Macintosh did the same thing in the 1980’s by donating thousands of personal computers middle & high schools across the country. That campagin did not seem to work as well. Victoria Secret may very well succeed were others have not.

By: Camille

Camille — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:05:58 +0000

I think lumping the japanese style of Lolita into this is degrading. The Japanese women have for years valued youth a lot more than we as a Western society has. Lolita is by no means a main-stream style but it is found most often on women ages 16-30….It is supposed to be cute and Victorian style. ‘Sexy’ for Lolita type styles is coined by Western society… and is NOT what lolita is about. Lolita is about being modest and kawaii(cute in japanese). It reflects the opposite of sexy, hooker-like Barbies, Bratz, and MyScene dolls. It serves no place in your article. Thank you./
Camille

By: Rayne

Rayne — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:27:55 +0000

@Camille:

First of all, Lolita he’s referring to is a novel.
And the author mentioned the western culture is shifting to a more innocent desire away from barbie whore.
I didn’t see him “lumping” anything, just making good points and different views.

Also if you don’t think the japonese think its sexy then try googling some japonese porn, thats all you’ll find.

By: lucas77

lucas77 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:59:06 +0000

Rayne does make a good point.

By: Robby

Robby — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:53:00 +0000

Lolita’s and nymphets are great! :_))

By: J.

J. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:15:52 +0000

I agree with Camilla.
The Japanese “Lolita” style captures the innocence of youth. That’s why the style consists of females who dress very modestly. Most of the time covering all of their legs and arms.

The Japanese “Lolita” style has NOTHING to do with the book Lolita. The only thing they have in common is the name.

As for the older women who do dress in Japanese “Lolita” style, I don’t see them as not dressing their age. The style is inspired by fashion in the Victorian period and personally I find it charming.

When the Japanese “Lolita” style first made its mark in the world it was meant to be just that, capturing the innocence of youth and nostalgia of the Victorian era (and still is). Of course, like all things in the world, it can be twisted into something perverse.

By: Toumori

Toumori — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:21:32 +0000

Um, “dress their age”? That’s a bit of a ridiculous and open ended statement. You’re forcing your views on others? Because you think that older women should look a certain way, you believe that they should? ROFL.

By: Dahlia

Dahlia — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:09:35 +0000

I agree completely with Camille and J. Lolita fashion has nothing to do with sexy. Any real Lolita will tell you that. It’s exactly the opposite. For many followers of the Loli style, it’s about fighting back against the “sex sells” culture. Lolita is about modesty and charm. In fact, most Lolita-made guides to Lolita fashion have a common rule; if it’s sexy, it’s not Lolita. Frankly, I’m a tad insulted that you didn’t bother to do any research at all, before casually throwing Lolita fashion into this article, as if it were responsible for, or perhaps just a product of, this “younger is better” sexual ideal.

And lucas77, Rayne does NOT make a good point. If either of you had bothered to read the article more carefully, you would know that he was talking about a Japanese, fashion-based subculture. Nabokov’s Lolita was barely mentioned in passing.

~Dahlia