Just a random thought.... it hit me a while back and I can't remember what made me think of it.
Maybe, just maybe, the whole LD/HD thing is exponentially enlarged when it is used as the avenue for a power struggle? It's about who is in charge, who is going to get their way.
On occasion, I have wondered whether I would be better off playing it coy but then "succombing" to seduction that flat out announcing I want sex, and lots of it. In the first scenario, he "wins" when we have sex. In the second scenario, maybe he thinks he "loses" if we have sex?
I am not as good with words, maybe one of the brilliant minds will undersand and explain it better?