Girllove



Girllove is a map attraction to girls. A person experiencing such an attraction is called a girllover (commonly abbreviated as GL).

Definition and types of GLs
Girllove is an attraction towards significantly younger children or adolescents who are girls. People who find this attraction personally important to their identity may call themselves girllovers. Girllove does not need to be exclusive or preferential, girllovers may also be attracted to boys and nonbinary children, as well as women, men, and nonbinary adults. Their own gender may also vary. A girllover may have other identities, such as boylover or childlover. An attraction to really young girls is sometimes called "little girl love".

History and community
Historically girllove and boylove communities were often separate, due to common beliefs about inherent differences between boys and girls. The gap was significantly lessened through creation of inclusive initiatives, such as a mental support space Life Line, and later through appearance of less homogenous, more diverse map communities on mainstream social media platforms. Currently the main places for GLs to socialize together are GirlChat and Visions of Alice.

Real life

 * John Ruskin (8 February 1819 - 20 January 1900), an English writer and philosopher. According to his own admission, he fell in love with 11 year old Rose La Touche, whom he met when she was 9 or 10 and proposed later, when she was 17. He also made numerous requests for his artist friend Kate Greenaway to draw nude girls for him.
 * Lewis Carrol, aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 - January 14, 1898), an English writer and mathematician. He is known for a very intense emotional relationship with Alice Liddel, who was 3 years old when they first met, and also for a special interest in taking photos of little girls, sometimes nude.

Fiction

 * Humbert Humbert, the protagonist of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. He is an adult man with an almost exclusive attraction to young adolescent girls.
 * Thomas Lynn, one of the key characters of Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones. He meets the protagonist Polly when she is 10 years old and falls in love with her as their friendship develops in the following couple of years.