For the record, "erotic" and "eros" are explicitly much broader terms in queer theory than in everyday usage It's not just queer theory either, it's a very common thing, arguably going back to ancient Greece itself
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I was specifically addressing the absurd claim that what we call Platonic Love was actually Plato's view of love. All other points pace.
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What we call 'platonic love' is basically modelled on Socrates' speech in Symposium, in which the highest form of Eros transcends the carnal, passing through the love of beautiful minds to become the spiritual pursuit of beauty (in its Platonic Ideal form)
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