With the unemployment rate hovering just below 10% these days, we’re all lucky to even have a job, whether it be at a fast food joint or a clothing store or as a fart-joke-loving blogger pretending to know about fantasy football when she clearly only watches the sport to admire the spandex-clad butts. We should all be grateful that we make enough money to live, house ourselves, and eat, and should be frugal with our remaining funds.

Look. What I’m trying to get at here, is you need to stop trolling the clubs looking for booty, when you’ve got VIP service at Club OBC, full of singles looking for the same thing you are. Need more proof? Check out the chart below for our booty cost comparison!

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OBC has been saying “You don’t have to promise marriage just to get a date” for years, shouting it from the rooftops, car windows, and public bathroom toilets in Barstow, CA (sidenote: don’t ever go to Barstow, California). And yet, for some reason, everyone construed it as us preaching dirty, offensive filth that would derail humanity and send us into a population-decimating spiral that ends with us being taken over by starfish or something.

Fast-forward to this week, and a University of Iowa professor Anthony Paik is backing us up, saying that people who engage in ‘hookup culture’ are still fully capable of going on to have meaningful, fulfilling relationships… when they’re ready. He analyzed 462 adults’ relationship studies from across the Chicago and discovered that while those who hold off on sex have happy, successful relationships, so do those who “spot each other across the room, become sexually involved and then build a relationship.”

The study seems to infer that it wasn’t the sexual behavior of the participants that dictated their ability to have lasting relationships, but instead their readiness to be in a long-term commitment. Therefore, those who were participating in casual dating, hookups, and booty calls were more likely to be able to gauge whether or not they were ready and willing to commit to one person.

Plus, there was no sign that relationships couldn’t be formed from casual hooking up and dating. It makes sense, because sexual chemistry is much harder to force than personality chemistry. And when it comes to long term relationships, an unsatisfactory sex life is one of the main reasons people stray. So why is it that sexual compatibility is so far down on the bottom of the list, behind political views, favorite color and hobbies? Sure you might like rock climbing together, but if you don’t wanna bone down at the top of the cliff, why even climb it?

That didn’t make any sense. I think it’s quitting time and it’s only 10 am.

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It’s a big day for Team OBC over here: it’s Taco Tuesday, I received my monthly Cheese Aficionado magazine, and OH YEAH GUESS WHAT, OnlineBootyCall.com reached 5 MILLION MEMBERS! Can you believe it? To put that in perspective, if we were a city, we’d have a bigger population than that of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined! And if we were a country, we’d be somewhere in between Turkmenistan and Singapore! And if we were an awesome OBC party island, we’d be as big as Sicily, which is party of Italy, so… free pizza for everyone!

Okay, not really about the pizza thing, but HEY! We’re very proud to announce this big milestone, as well as another exciting one: we’ve officially trademarked the term “Booty Call”! Being the number one casual dating site in the world, we believe we’ve earned it, but of course we couldn’t do it without you, our awesome, loyal members. So a huge thank you to all of you, and we hope we’ve made you proud!

Read the whole press release about these exciting milestones at BusinessWire!

Rewind to a few months ago: the OBC team was thinking about a massive overhaul. A site rebranding, if you will, that would freshen the site’s look and feel and resolidify us as the #1 casual dating site in the world. Then we remembered one of the most fun, entertaining projects we’ve ever released: The Booty Call Commandments! That’s it, we thought, what better cornerstone to build on for a fun new twist to the site than the commandments themselves?

So, we’ve decided to rerelease the commandments for your enjoyment and education (this is Booty Call U, after all), and they can be found in their entirety here, here, and also here.

“Despite the changes in the look and feel of the site, our mission is still the same. We create a place where like-minded singles can meet, flirt and date, without the added pressure of long-term expectations,” said Moses Brown, inventor of the OBC commandments. “With more active singles having less time to date, a casual, fun approach to dating is not only becoming more acceptable but also increasingly desirable.”

Your assignment tonight: learn them, love them, and spread the word.

Check out the press release in its entirety here!

It’s been a whole 3 years since President and Founder of OBC, Moses Brown, released his hilarious (and poignant) Booty Call Commandments, but their message has stuck around and reminded us every day of the rules of a great booty call! So when the OBC team decided on a huge overhaul of the site’s look and feel, we thought, what better to base the site on than the cornerstones of OBC’s modus operandi?

With that, we welcome you to the new OnlineBootyCall.com…

This screen shot is your first look at the new and improved front page of OBC… click on it to sign up (if you aren’t already in the club) and see the most fun new features of OBC. And if you are already a lucky member of OBC, stay tuned for your peek at the new and improved Booty Call Commandments!