That you would never dream, in a million years, of asking a woman to give you sex or make love with you in order for you to scratch an itch.
You know I love you Corri but I gotta ask why not? If HD were married to me ( a woman although I will grant you perhaps a different sort of women than MsHD) and he were to say to me in a friendly manner "I'm feeling horny wanna f*ck?", I'd maybe think about it for 10 seconds and then I'd say "Sure, why not? This book is in a draggy part." and I'm sure he'd apply the calamine if I was itchy too. I think that maybe what you meant to convey was that HD would never dream of asking that of a woman against her will or in a way that was coercive. IMO it's all sort of chicken and the egg. Her bad attitude about sex is the precondition that makes his asking for it for whatever reason a big deal. I get what you're saying because I was married to the man who told me that food didn't taste as good when I didn't "make it with love" but the fact of the matter is that I served that guy dinner 6 nights out of 7 sometimes with love and sometimes just because people get hungry so I don't know why MsHD can't grow up and do the same.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver