a wild jeard appears...
GQ: There's a great new gag clip of you petitioning the showrunners for a more robust love life for Ben. Do you think Ben is a virgin?
ME: [pause] Wow. In the days when it looked like he had warm feelings for Juliet, I did give some thought to his experience or inexperience in romance... [pause] Wow! I don't know. If he is...experienced...who would it have been with? And where? And how? It's a possibility-it might go a long way toward explaining his personality, if he is a virgin.
the rest of the GQ interview can be read
here.