pondus Judaeus

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pondus Judaeus

1. (historical) A weight attached to the penis in order to restore the foreskin to someone who has been circumcised, chiefly with reference to Jews in Ancient Rome.
   • 1965, Medical Times, volume 93, page 589:

     They also invented the "Pondus Judaeus," a bronze sheath worn so as to pull on the skin of the preputial fragment to make it re-cover the glans.

   • 1967, Allen Edwardes, Erotica Judaica, page 114:

     Epispasm was generally enacted according to Celsus, but also with the aid of the so-called pondus Judaeus or "Jewish weight"; a long, funnel-shaped copper or leather tube encasing the penis and clasping the skin that was drawn down by force of weights.

   • 2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 11:

     Most of them probably tried the Pondus Judaeus, a funnel-shaped weight made of bronze or copper that was attached to the penile shaft above the glans.