Late night booty call

Know your vibe. Side note — you may still get booty calls from the completely oblivious, overly confident guys which no amount of tips or tricks will work to ward them off. Refer to 9 in these cases. And you know what they do? They booty call you.

First of all, let me state for the record, I have NO issue with the concept of booty call. Meaning, the man involved knows exactly what it is. He defines it by his unwillingness to take the relationship further. Her friends even know what it is. It used to be incredibly simple. The rules around the booty call were pretty straight forward. Now, though, things aren't quite as simple as they used to be.

On Friday night, I was having what my mother would call "a late night" out on the town when I noticed some bad booty call behavior that I have to report back on. Basically, a guy my friend Alexis used to date, and still hooks up with, ignored her all night, chatted up other girls, left without her, and then texted her to come over once he was home. And she went! Now, I don't pretend hearts are logical organs.

As silly as it may seem, defining booty call, one-night stands, friends-with-benefits arrangements and other casual sex relationships is important for psychologists, who can't study relationships without defining them. That's why Peter Jonason, a psychologist at the University of Western Sydney in Australia, focused on these relationships in a new study, published Nov. Jonason wanted to provide definitions that offered insight into the functions of each of these relationships. People get involved with other people for many reasons: sex, companionship, love and even for a self-esteem boost. The results, he surmised, could explain why people might get involved in a booty-call relationship versus a one-night stand or long-term affair.