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erotic love

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Noun1.erotic love - a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"
concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros - a desire for sexual intimacy


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For nearly two millennia Christians (and Jews for that matter) understood the Song of Songs allegorically, but when a literal type of exegesis prevailed in the late nineteenth century, understanding the book as a series of erotic love poems, the spiritual understanding of the book was almost totally discarded.
Each episode illustrates a different perspective on the DL, and each features a lengthy, erotic love scene between the two men involved.
Benedict also strives to overcome the dualisms of soul and body, eros and agape, erotic love and self-giving love, to find a synthesis of the two in a love that is both self-giving and ecstatically mutual.
 
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