Emerging Hooking up Culture and Changing Pattern of Love Relationships: A Study Among the Students of Dhaka University

The aim of this study is to examine the process of changing pattern of love relations of the youth in the context of hook up culture in Bangladesh. The youth of the university campus are free and culturally developed. They are becoming modern influenced by the western culture, western music and western dress up. They are becoming realistic in their relationships. There is little emotion and long-term relationships among them. They just want to have their partners for meeting their sexual demand. They love each other but they do not like to make a bond among them. Even the friends and classmates are becoming couple day by day through chatting until midnight, enjoying coffee and movie show together. They have no love bonding but they feel and treat each other as their partner. They are going to be sexual partner but not to be a life partner. They meet, they date and they pass their time with their partner whole day and night. They have no responsibility for them in this relationship. Even if they break down their relationships, they do not feel upset. They feel just so what (?) and say good bye to him/her. After all they make a new relationship. This study is conducted in mixed method. In quantitative research, face to face survey method is used to explore the numeric data about the tendency of hooking up culture of the youth. In qualitative research, in-depth interview is used to explore the hidden factors of changing pattern of love relationship. The study will be conducted on the students in the University of Dhaka. Sample will also be selected as randomly and purposively for both study. Nonetheless, this study is to explore the pattern of love relationships of the youth with the emerging hook up culture.