A student might have written a term paper titled "Tarzan x Shame of Jane: The Erotics of Abjection in Burroughs" —with "x" standing for "versus" or "intersection." This paper would have discussed how Jane’s narrative arc is defined by shame (of desiring Tarzan, of leaving civilization, of her own body). The "work" would be a 20-page undergraduate thesis.

: Collectors of D’Amato’s filmography view this as a curious outlier in his massive body of work.

Tarzan-X: Shame of Jane is a 1995 Italian erotic film directed by Joe D’Amato