The Little Mermaid’s Author Was Addicted to Chatting Up Prostitutes, Then Rushing Home to Masturbate to the Memory
The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875) covered a wide range of genres, penning plays, poems, novels, travel books, and autobiographies. He is best known however for his fairy tales. Anderson’s works, such as The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid, are among the most widely translated writings in history, and have been a childhood staple for generations around the world.
His own childhood was unpleasant. Born to impoverished parents, Anderson was raised in dire poverty, and had to spend most of his tender years working in a mill. Childhood penury was compounded by a childhood homeliness that made the young Andersen an object of teasing, mockery, and bullying – The Ugly Duckling was actually based on his own unhappy childhood.
Making lemonade out of the lemons that life gave him, Anderson harnessed those experiences into stories that impacted many. However, when he was not busy writing stories that would feature prominently in the childhood of billions around the planet, Andersen liked to masturbate compulsively. And when not doing that, he liked to chitchat with prostitutes, then rush back home to masturbate compulsively.
Anderson was a celibate who not only liked to masturbate a lot, but also liked keeping meticulous records of his masturbation sessions, which carefully described and listed in his diary with a pair of ++ signs. A sample descriptive entry reads: “When they left, I had a doubly sensuous ++“. When in Paris, Anderson liked to visit prostitutes and talk with them, then rush back to his hotel to put more ++ sign entries in his diary.
Anderson was also needy, and kept falling in love with people – both men and women – who did not reciprocate his feelings. He often wrote long and maudlin love letters to the objects of his affection, gushing about his feelings to those whom he knew were uninterested and would turn him down. After sending the letters, Anderson would rush back home to masturbate and record that in his diary.