realist- whatever do you mean?
NBHT means that the Etzem thing is Muttar (as per Ramban in Kedoshim). Platonic relationships are B’etzem Assur, not “B’Rishus HaTorah”. I would have said the same, but Realist beat me to it, and gets credit for it.
Peacemaker: See Ramban in the beginning of Parshas Kedoshim.
From vbm-torah(dot)org
…the matter is that the Torah proscribed certain sexual practices and forbade certain foods, but it permitted relations with one’s wife and the consumption of meat and wine. Now the glutton may therefore find license to be lecherous with his wife or his many wives, inebriated with wine and gorged with meat. He might speak profanity without compunction since the Torah records no such prohibition, and in the process he would be considered a vile and dissolute person that is nevertheless acting within the boundaries of the Torah! Therefore this verse (of “Kedoshim tihiyu”) is mentioned after the Torah has detailed all of the activities that are to be curtailed entirely, for it presents us with a general and comprehensive command that we are to be separated from overindulgence…