De-Sexifying Star Wars

The Book of Boba Fett & the Importance of Sex Appeal in Fiction

Episode 4 of The Book of Boba Fett aired yesterday on Disney+ and I’ve noticed a troubling trend in Star Wars since Disney acquired it.

No one has sex anymore.

Now, I don’t mean on-screen. Star Wars has always been family-friendly. But in the original trilogy and prequels, the characters were sexy and, once safely offscreen, would definitely be having sex. And as an audience member, that was good to know.

Now I find myself getting increasingly annoyed at how thoroughly de-sexed the new show has made Boba Fett. This is the ultimate bad boy, the kind of anti-hero chicks swoon for. He fights, he shoots, but he knows right from wrong and he’s never too busy to give a compliment to the slave girls.

Or at least… that’s how he used to be.