Boys, Learn with Jo!

Niina Pekantytär
4 min readMay 16, 2023

Friedrich and Jo, do have quite many passionate scenes in the Little Women series.

There is a very non-proper kissing scene in the under the umbrella chapter. He is Jo’s Sexual Awakening. In New York. There are kissing scenes in Little Men and Joe’s Boys. Little Men has the after-glow scene and in Jo’s Boys, there’s a full making-out session between them, which every anti-Jo and Friedrich person should read, before saying that Jo wasn’t into him. Every time, when I read it, it feels like they want to run upstairs and tear their clothes off.

I’m still very surprised that Louisa May Alcott was able to publish that in a 19th-century children’s book. Why? There are thousands of Alcott studies, which say that Jo wasn’t into Friedrich at all when she was. I don’t know. I guess they don’t read the book, or maybe they’re just mad that Jo didn’t end up with Laurie. It’s tiring to read that time and time again when you know that Jo and Friedrich are making out sessions in Little Women.

Here’s one of the kissing scenes from Little Men. This is the moment when Jo finds Dan in the barn. Dan is Jo’s favourite…

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Niina Pekantytär

Niina is an Illustrator, writer and folklorist. Likes cats, tea, 19th century books and period dramas. Host of the Little Women Podcast.