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    Lessons In Love For Generation Snapchat

    Young people say they want more guidance in navigating love and relationships. So new classes at some schools are less about the "plumbing" and more about the passion.
    by Tovia Smith Nov 22, 2017 5 minutes
    Tatiana Curran, right, and her boyfriend Jake Cowen-Whitman say their three-year relationship is an anomaly amongst their peers. But they readily concede that even they have serious issues around intimacy.

    Along with explicit sexual education classes, some schools are beginning to offer more G-rated lessons on love. Experts say the so-called "iGen" is woefully unprepared to have healthy, caring romantic relationships and young people need more guidance. So schools are adding classes that are less about the "plumbing" of relationships, and more about the passion.

    At Beaver Country Day School, a private school near Boston, Matthew Lippman has taught whole courses on love and relationships. He loves teaching about love so much, he finds ways to delve into it every chance he gets.

    In his American Literature class recently, he launched into a discussion about love songs.

    "This is my favorite" he announces as he blasts "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi. The students howl.

    "Are you kidding me?!"

    "It's so dirty!" the students say.

    "Just kidding!" Lippman laughs. But now that he's got

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