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Local sexual health brand We The Brave wanted to remind the men in their audience that, no matter what name you call it, you need to keep your bits safe every time you take them out to play.
So it enlisted the help of #Trending favourite Daniel Ting Chong to illustrate a new lexicon of penis-pride identifiers, and they absolutely nailed it.
Ting Chong’s signature use of scribbly lines, combined with pops of bright candy colours, brings the Dicktionary to life. His cheeky illustrations for elements like the elephant trunk and custard chucker (erk!) are simply hilarious, but still cool enough to have printed on a T-shirt, or maybe even a pair of naughty underwear.
“It’s a really cool initiative, so we had a lot of fun with it to get their message of safe sex out there,” Ting Chong told #Trending this week.
I ask if the process of coming up with visual references for the multitude of words for the penis in the universe was interesting for him.
“Thank goodness I didn’t have to search for dicks on Google for days. But growing up in an all-boys school, I got a lot of practice. You basically draw dicks on every piece of paper you can find!” he says, laughing.
Ting Chong and We The Brave communicated a lot so they could find representations that weren’t too shocking, nor too vanilla.
“For the custard chucker, we initially had an olden-day Game of Thrones vibe, but eventually got to a slingshot kind of thing. But it took a lot of sketches so that they didn’t look too obvious – like the rhino horn, for instance,” he says.
Which dick does he, erm ... identify with?
“Um, well, my favourite illustration is the banana, if that’s what you’re asking. The Afrikaans word for penis is ‘piel’, so it ticks all the boxes. Banana is definitely the one I identify with the most.”
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