Lac69 I really don't have any female friends who never think about it so I have no idea where all these facts come from.
Your circle of friends are different than my W' circle of friends.
One friend's W said, sex should be over once the kids are out of the house and certainly by the time one is 60 or retired, which ever comes first. I am 63.
I hear some women saying the sex is for baby making after they have some kids ready to leave the nest. No the women don’t want more kids. They want to give up having sex but have enough knowledge a sexless M won’t be a M for long.
Twenty years ago, there was an Ann Landers column that read. Most women want to be held in bed and had sex with their H to be held, not for the sex.
My W clipped it out and gave it to me and said, “here is what I have been telling you. I am normal.”
BTW I never know there were so many HDW till I found this forum.