Copenhagen will remove a statue of 'The Little Mermaid' because it is considered "ugly and pornographic."

The statue of "The Great Mermaid" by artist Peter Bech will be removed from its current location at Dragor Fort in Copenhagen, Denmark, because it is considered "pornographic," according to local media reports.

Thus, it was the Danish Agency for Palaces and Culture itself that requested the removal of this work, 'Den Store Havfrue,' which measures 4 meters wide and 6 meters high, because it does not "align with the cultural heritage of the 1910 monument." According to The Guardian, the municipality of Dragor has rejected Bech's offer to donate it.

Specifically, the statue has been described as "ugly and pornographic" by Mathias Kryger, art critic of the local newspaper Politiken, while priest and journalist Sorine Gorfredsen has asserted that erecting "a statue of a man's erotic dream" will not promote "acceptance" of many women with their own bodies.

"It's truly encouraging that many consider the statue vulgar, unpoetic, and undesirable, because we're suffocating in authoritarian bodies in public space," Gorfredsen added.

The designer of this 14-ton metal sculpture, Peter Bech, explained to the British newspaper that he doesn't understand the criticism and that the stone figure's breasts are simply "proportionately sized" to its scale.

When Bech created the statue in 2006, "The Great Mermaid" was placed on Langelinie Pier in Copenhagen, also near the original "Little Mermaid." However, it was removed in 2018 after locals denounced it as a "fake and vulgar mermaid."