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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=FM | coauthorsauthor-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 | journal=Bull. Hist. Med. | volume=75 | issue=3 | pages=375-405 | url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/hodges2/ | quote= | pubmedID=11568485 | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=2001 Fall-09 | accessdate=2019-11-01

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>