Translation please!
Hi all - I'm English! So, just to be sure, have I understood it correctly?
"Booty call" - A girl is interested in a guy on an emotional level, would like to form a commited relationship. The guy is not interested in this, maybe not even on a friends level, but exploits her feelings to get convenient sex when he feels the need and may or may not have other relationships at the same time.
"Friends with benefits." A couple who get on OK as friends and enjoy sex together without any commitment or love.
If correct seems like an unstable relationship to me - one or other likely to want more and get hurt. Or maybe both want more and live happily ever after. Or both get bored and the relationship ends. Either way not likely to last very long as FWB, but may not matter as it serves a mutual need for a while.
Two nations divided by a common language!
Anyone else need a translation?
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Jim.
You are esentially correct in your understanding of these terms.
Booty Call; she may or may not be emotionally connected. I've never heard of any woman having a man at her beck and call when she wants it but might happpen.
FWB often seems to turn into Booty Call
We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Mudoch, British writer
Thanks WC - I guess you're right about the reverse situation, it must occur but pretty rarely. Maybe an atractive inexperienced young guy and a confident mature woman? But mostly the guy would feel pleased with what he was getting rather than used, whatever the womans motives.
While we're on the subject. Booty? I thought it meant, , bum, bottom, etc. But that doesn't seem to fit here. Is it a simile for sex with a woman, like "getting booty", or a term for any of a womans "private parts?" Or booty, like treasure or valuable goods obtained by force or deception?
Is it regarded as a very rude term to use?
Last edited by Jim60; 01-08-2011 at 03:47 PM.
I'm not sure what the origin of that is. I consider it derogatory but a lot of women apparently don't.
We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Mudoch, British writer
i've always thought "Booty" reffered to the butt.
There is an old song "shake your booty"..
i dunno, i don't think it's rude..
Booty is butt..bum. The phrase "booty call" means "come over here I want to F you". Booty calls are not about intimacy they are about getting it on and getting it on quickly regardless of whether or not one party is interested in a more committed outcome in the end. It is a phrase that a lot of young guys will use because to them its funny to say "yeah man shes just a booty call", or "I'm only one booty call away from getting laid tonight and your not". To a woman I do not think it is rude until she may realize that she is nothing more than a booty call to him. If she thought it was something a bit more than maybe a casual friendship and he obviously doesn't then it can turn into a rude comment to be called a booty call.
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Booty isn't really a "bad word," I think it's AAVE in origin, but I think of it more as a cutesy word ... something you would use with a child to refer to his bottom. Of course, its sexual meaning makes that a little awkward, but as an American it seems like a very separate thing.
"Getting some booty" seems like a really awkward way to refer to sex, but "booty call" is a more normal construct.
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