Russell Brand has admitted that he had a close encounter of the sexual kind with a man in a public toilet.

We all know that Brand has a penchant for revealing intimate details about his private life but since he has cleaned up his lifestyle somewhat he had to dig back to as far as 2002 to share this little tidbit.

"I w**ked off a man in a toilet." he told fellow comedian Richard Herring in a podcast interview.

"I thought, 'I think of myself as heterosexual but perhaps that's 'cause of the environment that I grew up in where homosexuality may have been difficult for me to express."

So with that thought in his head he decided to explore his theory in a documentary about sexual taboos. He explained in the interview that he trawled around various gay bars in Soho looking for volunteers to aid him with this most important of experiments until he found someone who answered his question of: 'Anyone want me to w*** them off?'

"So we goes to the lavvy - me, him, the director - and... he gets his willy out. And it was not nice. The phallus is... I like mine and you see some others in paintings that look all right but his looked like a rag."

Hmm, sexy.

RE: Brand aired in 2002 and also saw the comedian carry out other highly appropriate and pivotal acts of social experiment including having a bath with a homeless person. Why a game-changing academic paper hasn't been written about this we'll never know.