It’s not just the word “titties” that has undergone a strange online transformation. “Penis,” a likewise amusing pair of syllables, has also evolved (or decomposed, if you prefer).
Unlike the horny, irrepressible “titties,” it is a clinical term, spoken with seriousness by doctors and health teachers so language provides an inexhaustible trove of crude synonyms: dick, dong, cock, wang, knob, johnson, pipe, weiner, hog.
Truly, there is no limit to what B-inflected permutations of male anatomical vocabulary can do and this may well be the point. For so long we have suffered with a vision of the masculine form as utilitarian and undynamic, but a bit of gibberish like “pebis” makes it fresh and surprising once more.
These are silly alphabetic scrambles, of course, though no less arbitrary than “real” words, and in their anarchic joy they allow for an understanding of a man’s body as something pliable, fluid, even innocent. Dick is boring. Cock is aggressive. “Benis”… well, you kinda want to see where that one goes.
