Perhaps Nabokov was out to prove that a profoundly immoral book, by the standards of the time that supported morals censorship across the whole Christian world and the whole civilized world, could be written without a single recognizably unchaste word.
A book soiled from beginning to end that even contains frequent passages describing especially repulsive sexual encounters.
As its early publication history makes clear, the authorities of his time generally took that view.
Lolita.
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