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The Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans, appear to have been accustomed to cover the foreskin with the _kynodesme_ (a band), or the
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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A kynodesmē was a cord or string or sometimes a leather strip that was worn by some athletes in Ancient Greece and Etruria to prevent the exposure of the glans penis in public. It was tied tightly around the akroposthion, the part of the foreskin that extended beyond the glans.
January 2, 2018