Acroposthion.com
The ancient Greeks certainly knew better and were against the barbaric practice of circumcising their males and possessing a generous
foreskin was a significantly important part of their culture. Many pieces of ancient Greek artwork depict scenes of naked men endowed
with quite lengthy foreskins. More importantly they practiced the cultivation of the prepuce and the longer the foreskin the more
desired it seemed to be whilst a mega [Greek: mega = large] prepuce or very large foreskin was the epitome of a desirable penis. As previously mentioned the term for the generous abundance of foreskin at the end of the penis is called the acroposthion…the whole
point of this website (pun intended). Maybe it is the acroposthion then, in all its unashamed obviousness is what’s seen to be the
undesirable element by those with circumcision ‘lust’, because it is precisely therein this protrusion that lays the source of the
most blissfully intense pleasurable sensations that a man can experience.
In his publication for ‘The Bulletin of the history of medicine’ entitled ‘The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece’,
As would be expected in a culture that valued the prepuce, the Greek language reflected this esteem through precise terminology. The
Greeks understood the prepuce to be composed of two distinct structures: the posthe and the ‘akroposthion’. Posthe designates that
part of the prepuce that covers the glans penis, but Greek writers occasionally used this word in a general sense to designate the
entire prepuce or, by extension, the entire penis. ‘Akroposthion’ designates the tapered, tubular, visually defining portion of the
prepuce that extends beyond the glans and terminates at the preputial orifice. When speaking of the iconographic representation of
the long prepuce, we are really speaking of the long ‘akroposthion’ for the posthe can never be larger than the unchanging surface
area of the underlying glans penis.
The association between the longer prepuce and respectability was so strongly felt that Greeks took steps to prevent unwanted exposure
of the glans. In this regard, the consistent artistic portrayal of the adult penis with a generously proportioned ‘akroposthion’ may
well represent an anatomical ideal peculiar to Greeks, but, in some cases, it could accurately represent a penis whose ‘akroposthion’ has
been elongated, either deliberately or accidentally through the continuous, long term application of traction. Such traction may have
come from the use of the kynodesme (literally a “dog leash”), a thin leather thong wound around the ‘akroposthion’ that pulled the
penis upward and was tied in a bow, tied around the waist, or secured by some other means.
