Woolworths Markets "Lolita" Beds for Girls
01 02 08 - 08:30 Woolworths has withdrawn bedroom furniture for young girls bearing the sexually charged name Lolita after a campaign waged by a mothers’ online chat room...........
For the benefit of any other Woolworths staff, Lolita was the 12-year-old girl who became the object of her middle-aged stepfather’s sexual obsession in the literary classic of the same name. Thanks to the novel the name has come to represent sexual precociousness in young girls.
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The Woolwoths staff were unaware of what the implications were of calling the furniture "Lolita", I suppose they will sell Playboy beds to kids instead now.
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