The Little Mermaid, a statue located in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark, has for over 100 years been a memorial to the Hans Christen Andersen fairy tale of the same name and the most seen tourist attraction of the city.
wikimediacommons The Little Mermaid
In 2006 a Danish restauranteur ordered his own carved larger granite version from a Chinese firm and installed it near the smaller original. After much criticism it was moved a few miles south to Drager Fort, a military installation in 2018, where the Big Mermaid, about 4 meters tall, continued to arouse negative reviews.
The Big Mermaid
Some critics regard the sculpture as pornographic and an insult to womanhood but that's a matter of opinion, odd in the free-thinking culture of Scandinavia. Does it really look so bad?
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