exchange flesh | Idiomator

Meaning: (rare,archaic,idiomatic,euphemistic)To engage insexual intercourse.c.1610–1611(date written),William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene iv],page293, column 2:[…]it was thought ſhe was a Woman, and was turn'd into a cold fiſh, for ſhe wold notexchange fleſhwith one that lou'd her:[…]1977,Jane Lane,A Secret Chronicle: Edward II,→ISBN(2002 House of Stratus reprint),page 140 (Google preview):[W]ill-she, nill-she, she must have Roger's company nightly in her bed, to ensure that he lay not with another. . . . Toexchange fleshwith Roger she would bid all the world defiance.1997,Gail Hershatter,Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai,→ISBN,page210:She thinks to herself, What crime have I committed? If two peopleexchange fleshfor money, why is it that only the one who contributes the flesh is a criminal and not the one who pays?

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