the gift of your body

the gift of your body
   obsolete
   extramarital copulation by a female
   Loan or licence might better describe the nature of the transaction:
    He would not, but by gift of my chaste body To his concupiscible lust. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)

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

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