Does "Lolita" glorify pedophilia?

This position holds that Lolita does not glorify paedophilia. It argues the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is no hero and his actions are never praised, and that Nabokov's aim was to expose the destructiveness of obsession rather than to celebrate or endorse it.

This position holds that Lolita does glorify paedophilia. It argues that whatever points Nabokov makes about social hypocrisy come only through the exploitation of child sexual abuse, and that the young Dolores is presented throughout solely as a sexual object.