taking it in trade

(Taking it in trade) when a woman uses her sexual favors to discharge a debt or to aquire consumer items. This differs from prostitution since it involes no moeny and is not offfered to the public at large but to a specific creditor or store merchent.

The lovely young woman having squandeered her paycheck on new clothes had no money left to pay her landlord therefore she offered her landlord the option oof (Taking it in trade) by her spending the night with him.