Lolita

The morality of Humbert thoughts, feelings and action can be looked upon from a few different perspectives. 

We should also keep in mind that the Human Sexual intercourse has three primary segments - 

1. Reproduction, 

2. Physical pleasure, and 

3. Mental satisfaction. 

So one who can't reproduce, having not hit puberty yet, can still physically enjoy sexual intercourse. Yet it seems that the mental satisfaction goes beyond the physical pleasure. It is the satisfaction of achievement. When one works hard towards making it happen and it actually happens and its with the right person - what is known as 'making love' - the satisfaction comes from their understanding of what they have just accomplished. The younger you are the less you understand the ins and outs of intimacy. You don't quite understand the advantages and the disadvantages of your action. You don't get the game as well as the other because you are not as experienced. For this reason it is wrong to have sex with someone who is drastically younger than you.

On the other hand for many years, in Christianity and Islam, younger girls were forcefully married to older men. The age difference would go from 1 year all to the way to 10. So if you were a female and you were 15, you would marry a 25 year old. Off course by then the girl has hit puberty and is physically ready for sexual intercourse. So looking at from this point of view what Humbert is doing is not that much out of order. 

I think what is really morally wrong with Humbert's relationship is that she's his daughter! This takes us to another topic - how humans think and operate.

Humans can think and act in three ways:

1. With their mind

2. With their heart

3. With their Penis OR Vagina

As a father, Humbert, is ment to take care of his little girl. He should by no means let his penis over take his mind. This is not to undervalue ones natural and even innocent sexual feelings. But if you're a dad and you have  singed up to take care of this little thing, then you have no right to pursue your sexual desires with her. Go out and find someone else. As a father there are so many million more things, topcis, thoughts and feeling that he can share with his little girl.

Humbert does mention:

“I would be a knave to say, and the reader a fool to believe, that the shock of losing Lolita cured me of pederosis. My accursed nature could not change, no matter how my love for her did. On playgrounds and beaches, my sullen and stealthy eye, against my will, still sought out the flash of a nymphet's limbs, the sly tokens of Lolita's handmaids and rosegirls. But one essential vision in me had withered: never did I dwell now on possibilities of bliss with a little maiden, specific or synthetic, in some out-of-the-way place; never did my fancy sink its fangs into Lolita's sisters, far far away, in the coves of evoked islands.”

As he explains in the quote above, he’s not a scavenger. He’s just going with his feelings. It is through discipline that one becomes a better version of who you they are. And who you are by a big portion is what you experienced as a child all the way to your 20s.