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Booty call

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Booty call

This Family Planning poster used language familiar to young people to get the message across about condom use. The term 'booty call' referred to a phone or text message to a previous sexual partner for casual sex.

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Carl Walrond, Teenagers and youth – Teenage sexuality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/27023/booty-call (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 22 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.