Shop pulls "Lolita" bed for young girls
 

Shop pulls "Lolita" bed for young girls
Fri Feb 1, 2008 2:01pm EST

LONDON (Reuters) - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.

Woolworths said staff who administer the web site selling the beds were not aware of the connection.

In "Lolita," a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, the narrator becomes sexually involved with his 12-year-old stepdaughter -- but Woolworths staff had not heard of the classic novel or two subsequent films based on it.

Hence they saw nothing wrong with advertising the Lolita Midsleeper Combi, a whitewashed wooden bed with pull-out desk and cupboard intended for girls aged about six until a concerned mother raised the alarm on a parenting website.

"What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest no one else here had either," a spokesman told British newspapers.

"We had to look it up on (online encyclopedia) Wikipedia. But we certainly know who she is now."

Woolworths said the product had now been dropped.

"Now this has been brought to our attention, the product has been removed from sale with immediate effect," the chain said.

"We will be talking to the supplier with regard to how the branding came about."

(Reporting by Peter Apps, editing by Paul Casciato)

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wow...in the movie, the girl was 16....it was a classic in my opinion.

It was good, but I don't think she was that old.

wiki says 14, I will go along with that

I know how the branding came about...

The same way Topbucks had nigg.er in their descriptions when they used overseas description writers.

They can still sell it just change the name to the Woody Allen Bed.

i didnt hear about that but i have seen outsourced gallery descriptions like that before. it doesnt seem like it is done intentionally , seems more like a translation problem where some people think that word is just slang for black people , not an insult.

although it is kind of an amusing topic by itself . i doubt many pornstars would appreciate being called "whores" in gallery descriptions, and "whore" is usually an offensive term. but i havent heard any outcry about that :)

out of curiosity are you offended by the n word in a gallery description ? would you be equally as offended if "whore" was used to describe a woman ?

Lolita was her name, and is still a name used widely in eastern europe. It's been taken WAY out of context and as a reference to pedophilia it is very, very obscure.

I'm more worried about the so-called parents of these kids knowing about the nicknames for child sex.

lolita was a great movie

I have the unrated directors cut

and as far as topbucks..... I droped them after I noticed the av avatar of one of their employees who post on JBM and connected to the story mentioned above

I quietly rerouted my traffic

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For fucks sake. The world is going to hell and people are spending time over a word.

IT'S A FUCKING WORD!!!!!

Why am i not surprized?

Fucking sicko :321GFY

Lolita is one of my grandmothers name, horrible to see this type of crap go on when its JUST A NAME>

Exactly. Lolita is just a name and not too rare name btw. All the ppl. who are jumping around this name and wailing are just ones who's first association is an underage neighbor's daughter that arises their sick fantasies. They understated that they are sick, so they are doing this to hide their real nature from others :2 cents:

We have a good saying:
Q: Who screams laughter: "After the thief!!!"?
A: The THIEF himself!

P.S. What would happen if the name of the girl from Nabokov's book was, say... Jessica, Sara or Jennifer?

So is vagina but I wouldn't name a bed that :1orglaugh

Wow hahahhaha