Infibulation, Infibulation

Michael Schmidt, The First Poets , p. 263. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. ISBN 0297643940 Many examples of kynodesm are depicted on vases, almost exclusively confined to symposiasts and komasts, who are as a general rule older (or at least mature) men. Tying up the penis with a string was a way of avoiding what was seen as the shameful and dishonorable spectacle of an exposed penis, something that was only portrayed in depictions of those without repute, such as slaves and barbarians. It therefore conveyed the moral worth and modesty of the subject. Paul Zanker, Alan Shapiro, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity , pp. 28-29. University of California Press, 1996. ISBN 0520201051 Nowadays male infibulation uses as genital modification.

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