The document discusses the town of Lolita, Texas and how its name was impacted by Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita. While the town's name originally denoted patriotism, after the 1959 publication of the novel it came to connote rape instead. The town decided to wait and hope the book's popularity would fade. Decades later, the name Lolita has become a pop culture reference denoting youthful desirability, as seen in examples of contemporary musicians styling themselves after the novel's protagonist.