In its ideal form, however, erotic - and especially homoerotic - experience is indissolubly linked by Cavafy to art, in that it likewise involves a relationship that entered into on an equal and consensual basis, and it is thus exempt from historical, social, economic, and natural contingencies. For Cavafy, homoeroticism is - in a positive sense - ‘unnatural’ in that it doesn’t lead to biological reproduction, and ‘anti-social’ in that it doesn’t lead to marriage; like art, it has no end outside itself. Thus eros and art are equally linked to creation rather than procreation.
(с) Evangelos Sachperoglou on C. P. Cavafy