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When talking about what he wants out of life, he said: "I'd like to have done a few plays and performed my music. I'd also like to find a lot more love. It doesn't need to be sexual. I could be done sexually with my girlfriend. I think we've been pretty clear that I want to feel free to fall in love with people and that [option] should be open, but sexually it can be closed off."
So... friendship. He's just invented friendship. Elgort went on to elaborate, describing the totally unique relationships he has with people of whom he is very fond but does not sleep with.
"I'm in love with a bunch of my male friends who I'm not interested in having sex with, so why can't I put the desire to have sex with women aside and and let myself have love with women?" he said. "I love Shailene Woodley and we never had anything sexual and that was great. There will probably be some sort of chemical thing at some point that you can't help, but you just have to be disciplined and not be a f*****.... We're primitive beings."
It sounds like Elgort thinks straght men require some sort of highly evolved open relationship in order to be friends with women . If so, his mind is going to be blown when he learns that he is not the first person to stumble across the concept of platonic love.