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[[File:Kynodesme.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Greek athlete wearing a kynodesme.]]
In ancient Greece, the '''kynodesme''' (κυνοδεσμη, lit. "dog leash") was a thin leather strap that was wound around the [[acroposthion]] (AKA the part of the [[foreskin ]] which hangs past the head of the penis), which pulled the [[penis ]] upward and was tied in a bow, tied around the waist, or secured by some other means.<ref name="Hodges">{{REFjournal
|last=Hodges
|firstinit=F.M.FM
|author-link=Frederick M. Hodges
|title=The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece and Rome: Male Genital Aesthetics and Their Relation to Lipodermos, Circumcision, Foreskin Restoration, and the Kynodesme
}}</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
{{REF}}
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