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Disney has been one of the major companies in which certain conspiracy theories pop up around again and again. In this particular case we are examining specifically the conspiracy of an image of a palace spire in the shape of a penis on the cover of, “The Little Mermaid” video cassette box art. Look closely, you can spot the golden palace and it’s “prize” almost immediately toward the center of the box, and a little bit up.
There are at least two ways to examine this situation. The first outlook is deny the penis on the golden palace. It could be our brains interpreting shapes, and we just think that a penis was put on the box art. We the consumer are possibly making up this connection. The other outlook is to accept that someway and somehow, someone put the penis deliberately on the box art. If indeed the penis really was put there by Disney, it was either a little joke from an internal Disney artist employee, or someone else at Disney implemented it.. This is quite possibly a prime example on how Disney has used subtle sexual appeal to sell products to either the parents of the the children who watch this kind of material or the kids in order to “arouse” them into buying their stuff.
Usually Disney is known to create and recreate innocent childhood fairy tales, aimed specifically for young children and also the entire family. “The Little Mermaid” is partially based on Greek and Roman mythology with King Neptune, the god of the sea and her daughter Ariel, a mermaid or water sprite. Older myths and stories were full of sexual themes, but this version is supposed to be child friendly. That is why it would be unusual for Disney to openly admit to any sexual themes in their media. The penis on the tower is centered between and slightly above the main cast characters. I think if you have a wild imagination you can make sense of why the penis is supposedly golden and put between the movie couple.
Perhaps King Neptune’s presence right by the penis tower is to

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