He finds that perhaps even more interesting then anything else. So he isn't opposed to intimate connections with people, he simply doesn't want to go too physical.

"Is your feelings on this kind of thing because of the time you lived through?" In a way this is interesting to him because it is such a different thought process then any he has ever encountered before. Sex in his world is hardly something anyone is ashamed to take part in and certainly isn't a conversation worth being embarrassed about. The people he has been around have been quite shameless.