Depicting the clones as culturally/socially stupid, virginal and sexless is just another way of dehumanizing them and it’s disturbing how many people are out here writing them that way..
Some of us write them as culturally ignorant and sexually inexperienced as a way of expressing their isolation and alienation from the galactic society. It is a way of depicting their Othering, as a consequence of the rest of the galaxy NOT seeing them as even sentiments, let alone apart of the broader galactic society.
Ignorant and learning is different than painting them like they don’t ever do anything and are too dumb (like I’ve legit seen people joking about a certain clone being embarrassingly fucking stupid which like ? Cmon no. ) to know what’s going on around them.
Or the whole “they’re sterile” thing that SW fanboys always like to tout. Which just makes me wildly uncomfortable.
It’s different if you’re writing it in the way you describe. Because it has a purpose. I don’t think everyone doing this is handling it with the same amount of care.
Ok but actually I’m continuing this:
the weird sexual purity and repression is an extremely dangerous topic and I’d rather that not be the case for men who are already being put through/dehumanized enough as it is.
Let the boys fuck as much or as little as they choose. But do not act like they wouldn’t know how or wouldn’t want to just because you aren’t comfortable with it/don’t want to write it.
That's my opinion or it as well. I try to think in terms of the real world when it comes to the clones. They have a lot of information available to them, and we know in canon that they are aware of the existence of women while they're still cadets (who can forget the guy who's buddy called him out and said he never met a girl before?)
So in canon, the basic knowledge is there, and they certainly had some form of sex-ed (even if it was basic).
In the real world there are plenty of people who have a limited introduction to human sexuality as well, not to mention many of our ancestors, who were limited to what they were told and what they saw (because written word is fairly new and wasn't always available to people even once it did exist). People with limited knowledge still fell in love, still had sex, still had babies.
It's a disservice to the clones to assume they wouldn't have the same urges (or lack of) as anyone else and wouldn't have the ability to navigate those urges the same way humans have since the beginning.
My favorite is when they use their advance aging as an excuse for it as well. Like if you even think about them in a romantic/sexual way someone has to bring up the fact that they are 10 years old. I’m sorry their aging is different to a normal human wherein a clone if given the chance to age naturally will die around 50 while a normal human can live up to their 80’s and possibly more.








