1. 2. Sex.

 

Katie Wales speaks about the eroticism which appears in Ulysses through sound-play, and she quotes the following fragment:

"Tipping her tepping her tapping her topping her. Tup. Pores to dilate dilating. Tup. The joy the feel the warm the. Tup..."

Here, as Wales explains, the words with a "t" and a "p" give sexual innuendo to the phrase as they are phonically similar to the word "tup" which has sexual connotations.

(Section 4 in "Joyce's Use of Imagery in Different Topics")