He can't help it... avoiding intimacy is a reflex to him, even if part of him does want to say it it's so buried in everything else in that neat little box of things he can't deal with.

The way Murdock's eyes gloss over tell him it's more than the rush talking - there's something there he feels like he should be sorry for. Instead, he says; "Still good?" with a grunt that barely holds back a lusty moan.