Over the years, people have come up with countless creative ways to describe sex. You have coitus or copulating, if you’re feeling clinical. Bumping uglies or doing the nasty, if you’re feeling cheeky. Shakespeare referred to it as “making the beast with two backs” in his tragedy “Othello,” and Kevin Gates has an equally poetic name for the act—if it’s anything like his soul-baring anthems, we have a feeling it’s going to catch on. “I like to call it spiritual unification,” Gates says. “It’s a very spiritual act, and people use ‘sex’ objectively, but it’s two souls uniting. It’s supposed to be sacred and I look at myself as sacred. My masculinity is sacred.”
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