Actually, in English too, the word "excite" sometimes has sexual overtones – or undertones! In fact, when I was living and teaching English in Japan, it led to some interesting chats.

Sometimes at parties, cute young ladies (or girls!) would come over to me and say "I'm so exciting." ☺
(They intended to say "excited," but used the wrong form of the word.)

Occasionally, I would agree that they were "exciting"!! And I don't apologize for that!!

Re #3, was it really "the mess"? ☺