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In ancient times, infibulation was thought to protect the quality of a young singer's voice.<ref name="peete2012" /><ref name="hodges2001">{{REFjournal |last=Hodges |first=Frederick M. |init=FM |author-link=Frederick M. Hodges |etal=no |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 |location= |date=2001-09 |volume=75 |issue=3 |pages=375-405 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/hodges2/ |quote= |pubmedID=11568485 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1353/bhm.2001.0119 |accessdate=2023-12-8}}</ref>

In ancient Greece the [[foreskin]] was closed by being tied up with a string known as the ''[[kynodesme]]'' (dogtie).<ref>{{REFweb |urlname=https:"hodges2001" //www.liquisearch.com/infibulation/male |title=Infibulation - Male |last= |first= |accessdate=2021-11-23}}</ref>