re: #248 SanFranciscoZionist

What is it tied to? It looks as though he just has a bow around it.

And in a society in which naked athletics was an important part of civic and religious life, you can sort of see that being hung like a horse would not be super-convenient, or comfortable.

Wikipedia is your friend.

A kynodesme (Greek: κυνοδέσμη, English translation: “dog tie”) was a thin leather strip worn by some athletes in Ancient Greece to restrain the penis such as to prevent the exposure of the glans. It was tied tightly around the akroposthion, the part of the foreskin that extended beyond the glans. The kynodesme could then either be attached to a waist band to expose the scrotum, or tied to the base of the penis so that the penis appeared to curl upwards.