"Lolita" pornography, also known as "lollipop", is a type of pornography which features pubescent models who are or only appear to be under the legal age to appear in porn. While the term Lolita pornography can describe child pornography involving underage pubescent girls. In the porn industry the term "Lolita porn" describes porn featuring barely-legal models whom the producers claim to be of legal age to appear in pornography (18 years or older in some countries, such as the United States) when photographed. Nevertheless, even completely legal Lolita pornography tends to encounter social opposition in much of the world. The genre's name comes from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita, in which a much older man becomes sexually obsessed with the pubescent title character. Lolita pornography often differs from teen pornography in that while teen pornography will usually focuses on common themes that emphasize the performers' youth and inexperience, commercial Lolita pornography tends to try and accentuate their "young girl" appearance in a number of ways, including:
- shaving their pubic hair
- childish speech
- childish hairstyles such as pigtails
- posing with teddy bears, dolls or other toys
- wearing clothes typically associated with young girls, such as a schoolgirl uniform and undergarments decorated with cartoon characters
- posing on sets intended to evoke a girlish feel, such as a "childish" or "teenagerish" bedroom, classroom, girls' locker room or shower, school gym or bathroom (evoking children's bathtime routine)
- childish mannerisms such as twisting their hair, chewing on their fingernails or eating candy (especially sucking on hard candy, evoking fellatio)
Sometimes Lolita pornography is classified in the teen pornography genre or as a sub-genre of teen pornography. In cultures with a weaker taboo against ephebophilia, however, it is often commonplace, most notably in Japan, where actresses who take part in it are usually described as kogals or schoolgirls, and where even in mainstream pornography adult actresses often do their best to seem childish.
