The Hutt Sex Explainer You Don't Want But Are Kind of Curious About

Star Wars‘ next movie, The Mandalorian and Grogu, raises a lot of important questions. Can The Mandalorian sustain a leap to the big screen? What’s next for Grogu after rejecting Luke Skywalker’s New Jedi Order? Why is Martin Scorsese voicing a four-armed little weirdo? But one question has lingered above all: if Jabba the Hutt has a son, how did that happen? Star Wars sickos have known that Rotta the Hutt—Stinky, to his friends—has been a part of canon since the 2008 Clone Wars movie. But now he’s back and distressingly buff, and every time new information about Rotta’s role in The Mandalorian and Grogu appears, the question re-emerges of how Hutts have sex. We have the answers. Several answers, even! While there isn’t all that much known about hutt procreation in Star Wars, it was detailed more in the old Expanded Universe, because of course it was. Despite their slug-like appearance, Hutt physiology was drawn from many different, familiar species. Hutt gender was inherently fluid and could be changed at will, and all hutts were hermaphroditic, possessing multiple sets of sexual organs. This meant that any given hutt could procreate asexually—as was the case with Jabba, who was t