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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, ed., '' |title=Suidae Lexicon'', 5 vols.('': Lexicographie Graeci'', vol |url=https://enzyklothek.de/allgemeinenzyklop%C3%A4dien/enzyklop%C3%A4dien-des-mittelalters/adler-hg-1928-1938-%E2%80%93-suidae-lexicon |volume=1) ( |location=Leipzig: |publisher=Teubner, |year=1935), |chapter= |pages=4: 849.}}</ref>
The kynodesme, then, was used in ancient Greek society as a means to prevent the public indecency of an exposed glans when nude.<ref name="Hodges"/>