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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