Look I know academics saying embarrassing things about "eros" or "erotics" in public is easy to dunk on and there's a time honored tradition of doing so But you all know that it makes you look ignorant, right, and not just of PoMo 20th century "queer theory" shit
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"Eros doesn't literally mean sex" goes back a LONG way Freud and Jung, who were both very much NOT "postmodern" and who are in fact pretty old school, used "eros" consistently just to mean "desire" or "energy" "Lust" in the sense of "lust for life", like Iggy Pop would say
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People like to use "erotic" in the modern sense as an antonym of "platonic", their word for a pure, nonsexual friendship The problem is that "platonic" is named for Plato, and THE WORD PLATO HIMSELF USED FOR THAT KIND OF LOVE WAS "EROS"
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The ancient Greeks were ALL ABOUT the idea that eros and sex could be separated from each other! This is why there's so much debate over whether or not they had a concept of being "gay" in the modern sense! They were very willing to describe people as "lovers" without fucking!
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INFO: I thought eros was sex love and agape was non-sex love? (disclaimer I know nothing about Greek or classic. This is based entirely on being raised Catholic and the pope had a whole thing about the importance of agape once)
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No, not really In actual ancient Greece they were just two words for "love", with "agape" more commonly used in the context of family love and "eros" in the context of what we'd call romance
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The Christians took "agape" and made it the core of their philosophy, the word for universal, unconditional love, like the love God has for all creation Which is fine, but by the same token "eros" doesn't necessarily mean "sex" but just "desire"
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So like sure "eros" has this connotation of not being selfless, altruistic love, it means desire, obsession, attraction That still doesn't necessarily mean sex - Gollum's lust for the One Ring is a classic depiction of destructive eros
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Replying to @arthur_affect @aneas_anois
... well there's a type of fan fiction that I've never thought about but am now certain exists...
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Rule 34 never fails.
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