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: Once back at the villa, conflict arises between the Ape Man and Jane's aristocratic friends, including her boyfriend George. The story highlights the "culture shock" he experiences and the "animal magnetism" that disrupts the well-mannered household.
The inclusion of "top" suggests a BDSM framework, a discourse that entered mainstream English-language consciousness in the early 1990s via books like The Marketplace (1993). In this reading, Tarzan is not a brute but a dominant partner who uses his primal authenticity to strip away Jane’s performative shame. The "shame" becomes a source of erotic tension and psychological transformation. Rather than Tarzan learning to wear a suit, Jane learns that her shame is a luxury of the powerless. The 1995 English-language underground context would have allowed this to be a serious, if transgressive, character study—a far cry from the romanticized jungle lord of Hollywood. tarzanxshameofjane1995engl top