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}}</ref> Vase paintings and statues frequently portray nude athletes and komasts wearing the kynodesme.
Public exposure of the glans was considered unsightly and indecent, as an exposed [[glans ]] was associated with intimate circumstance of having an [[erection]].<ref name="Hodges"/> Furthermore, an exposed glans resembled the permanently externalized glans of the circumcised penis, where the removal of the foreskin was considered akin to castration.<ref name="Hodges"/>
The Greeks used term psolos (ψωλος, lit. "having an [[erection]]") to describe a man with an exposed glans.<ref name="Hodges"/> The term was not exclusive to a man who was [[circumcised]], but could apply to any man with an exposed glans, either actually having an [[erection]], or a man who was afflicted with [[lipodermos]].<ref>{{REFbook
|editor=Ada Adler
|title=Suidae Lexicon: Lexicographie Graeci
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