

The difference between romance, the concept, and romance, the genre, has long been the Happily Ever After. See what happens when you give in to your desires, kids? Forget graphic images of STIs or abstinence-only instructional films, the most effective videos for preventing teen pregnancy may be the Star Wars movies. They share one passionate kiss-and then he immediately keels over, dead. After years of closely analyzing the most sexual tension the Star Wars franchise has to offer-which is still pretty PG-Reylo shippers were finally vindicated at the very end of the movie, after a newly reformed Kylo Ren saves Rey’s life with Force healing power. The Rise of Skywalker marks the shortest-lived romance of all. Han is literally murdered by the result of their love, their son Kylo Ren, and two movies later, Leia spends her own dying breath trying to save him. The Force Awakens torpedoes the brief happy ending that they got at the end of Return of the Jedi, revealing that they’ve since separated, and it’s all downhill from there. Meanwhile, Han and Leia both end up dead as a result of their love.
