This article is about the term. For the film, see Booty Call.

A booty call is a telephone call or other communication made with the sole intent of achieving sex with the person being contacted. Such a call is usually made later in the evening and often after consuming alcohol. Traditionally this phenomenon, especially the term booty call, is associated with a woman calling a man, when both parties are already in a sexual relationship, and to some extent with African American culture, although these associations are changing with time.

The term itself is more likely to be used by the person answering the call or others in his/her company than the person making the call. It is often derisive, but not always. For example, "Did John take off?", "Yeah, he had to answer a booty call."

Although traditionally the telephone is used for a booty call, the last ten years have seen the rise of IM/chat/e-mail/text message booty calling, benefitting those more timid and more skilled at written manipulation than at live conversation due to the according anonymity and, hence, increased license to say anything in these formats.