Editing Infibulation (section)

==Male==
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[[File:Anacreon infibulated.jpg|thumb|upright|left|A marble statue of the Greek poet [[Anacreon]] (582–485 BCE), showing ''[[Kynodesme|kynodesmē]]'']]
Infibulation also referred to placing a clasp through the male [[foreskin]].<ref>Favazza, 
Armando R. (1996).''Bodies Under Siege: Self-mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry''. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp.&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=BwQT9fdZNdgC&pg=PA190 190–191].</ref> In [[ancient Greece]], male athletes, singers and other public performers used a clasp or string to close the foreskin and draw the penis over to one side, a practice known as [[kynodesme|''kynodesmē'']] (literally "dog tie").<ref name=Schmidt2004p263/> Many ''kynodesmē'' are depicted on vases, almost exclusively confined to [[symposium|symposiasts]] and [[komos|komasts]], who are as a general rule older (or at least mature) men.<ref name=Zanker1996p28>Zanker, Paul and Shapiro, Alan (1996). '' The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity''. University of California Press. pp. 28–29.</ref> In Rome, a [[Fibula (penile)|fibula]] was often a type of ring used similarly to a kynodesme.

''Kynodesmē'' was seen as a sign of restraint and abstinence, but was also related to concerns of modesty; in artistic representations, it was regarded as obscene and offensive to show a long penis and the [[glans penis]] in particular.<ref name=Schmidt2004p263>Schmidt, Michael (2004). ''The First Poets''. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p.&nbsp;263.</ref> Tying up the penis with a string was a way of avoiding what was seen as the shameful and dishonorable spectacle of an exposed glans penis, something associated with those without repute, such as slaves and barbarians. It therefore conveyed the moral worth and modesty of the subject.<ref name=Zanker1996p28/>
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