Danes enjoy playing with this sculpture of Andersen in The King's Garden. In the new-wave Danish film Nattevagt (later unsuccessfully reproduced in American as Night Watch with Nick Nolte), two young men seal their pact never to back down from a dare from one another by smashing their empty beer bottles on this sculpture of Andersen. Here, Copenhagen's Erotic Museum advertises itself with a naked woman in the lap of poor Hans Christian who, though often in love was never loved, to the best of our knowledge died a virgin, marking with an x in his journal each day that he lost his battle to resist masturbating. .