This is not a "women" problem, as you stated, but rather a HD/LD-ND problem. As this board attests, there are many HD women who are just as frustrated with their LD husbands as we are with our cold wives.
I do think that there are some dynamics unique to women, tho, especially AMERICAN women. There is damned near an epidemic in this country of women being "married to their children," as John Rosemond and others have written about. I also think the whole feminist movement has done a disservice to women, in positioning sex and affection sometimes as a "win/lose" thing, whereby if the husband gets what he wants, he "wins," and therefore the wife must have "lost." Dr. Laura writes -- sensibly, I think -- in her new book that even the WOMEN are unhappy with this current state of affairs.
My wife, too, does NOT seem happy at all.
As Dr. Phil likes to say, "How's that workin' out for ye?"