At the time, it had been 100% accurate. He really hadn't been doing a whole lot of touching. The sleepovers and things like that really only kicked in with any amount of frequency after they had met and... guess it turned out that actually he did enjoy casual touches. Just. Only with the small handful of people he'd let weasel into his defenses.

He huffed out a little laugh. "Something like that. I'm not exactly in high demand," he said, a fool. "I dunno though, uh... since we've been friends?"

So, basically the whole time is what he was trying to say.