In a suburban Maryland swimming pool, amid scuba divers practicing with oxygen tanks and young children wearing floaties while holding paddle boards, more than a dozen technicolored mermaid tails ...

US, May 8, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Mermaids have been worshiped, feared, criminalized, and sexualized throughout human history around the world, in literature, song ...

In recent years, so-called “mer-culture” has been on the rise. Then, there’s the whole “finfluencer” trend, with mermaids and mermans like Grace Page and Merman Chris making a splash on social media.

In “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” title princess Ariel, uncomfortable with her body and her life below the waves, wants to trade her fins for legs. Flap-flap for pitter-patter as she literally flips ...