Mysterious scene between Jabba and the dancing slave girl

In the novelization of the film, it says that she actually worked for Jabba, and got paid for dancing for him. Kind of interesting.

I was under the impression he actually wanted to eat her.

Never saw the point of this other than to show up how bad Jabba is and put Leia in more danger.

Since Jabba was as likely to be attracted to a humanoid female as a human male is likely to be attracted to a monitor lizard, I don't think he had any sexual interest in either the dancing slave or Leia.

If he kept scantily dressed attractive humanoid females around, it was most likely to impress or beguile his favored humanoid guests. Or maybe he kept them around for dinner, maybe Hutts like humanoid sandwiches or something.

Sheesh, I remember this scene. When we were kids this is where someone would always yell out "this is where her boob pops out" and sure enough. Somehow the boob popping out made it past the PG censors for the film and was even in the THX and Special Edition VHS's in the mid 90's, not sure about the DVD or Blu-Ray re-releases in the 2000's.

I remember the first time I saw the movie as a kid, I was confused that right after she falls through the trap door, Jabba reaches over and grabs a little frog creature and eats it... I thought she fell into a machine that shrunk her into that little frog creature.

That's pretty much how it went. It's too bad too because originally the plan was to have her survive. And plus she was hot.