The first Olympic games inspired penis piercing

And they called it a “dog leash.”

An athlete has tied his kynodesme into a bow. Another pulls the foreskin out and prepares a string in his right hand.

The only “clothes” athletes wore in the Ancient Games were foreskins.

It was considered shameful to show the head of one’s penis in Ancient Greece; mainly slaves and barbarians exhibited their glans in public.

An athlete fastens his kynodesme.

So around 500 B.C.E., early Olympic athletes (all men at the time) rigged a contraption known as a kynodesme (translation “dog leash”). They tied a string or ribbon around the end of the foreskin and either looped the penis up to a belt around the waist or secured it to the base of the penis. Incidentally, this also helped prevent, well, flapping. (Evidence shows the Romans had their own version, called a ligatura praeputii, which used a ring.)

The kynodesme was an impermanent version of kuno, a type of genital mutilation practiced in Ancient Greece. To prevent slaves from erection and procreation, rings were inserted through the foreskin; some athletes even wore kuno during training, as arousal and ejaculation were thought to weaken men. Historians suggest even adolescent boys were “treated” with kuno to preserve the voice.

Foreskin piercing is still known as kuno today. But you can Google that one yourself.