exchange flesh

exchange flesh
   obsolete
   to copulate
   This may be no more than the Bard's fertile imagery at work:
    She would not exchange flesh with one that loved her. (Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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