offer yourself

offer yourself
   to ask a man to copulate with you
   Usually promiscuously:
    She tracked me down to my rooms in Oxford and offered herself to me. (Amis, 1978)
   The obsolete offer kindness was at the gift of either sex:
    Offerd her such Kindnes, as sticks by her ribs a good while after. (J. Wilson, 1603, quoted in ODE?)

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