EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand Talks Sex, Barbies and George W. Bush in June Playboy

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It’s no secret that English comedian Russell Brand is well, pretty promiscuous, but let’s just hope his fiancé Katy Perry really knows what’s she in for. After all, Brand still classifies the time his father bought him a prostitute in Hong Kong when he was just 16 as one of the most “exciting” moments in his life.

“I can still recall everything about that night—the women in their high heels clinking across the floor and the smell of perfume and booze. I’ve had a strange attraction to prostitutes ever since,” Brand told the new issue of “Playboy” magazine, obtained exclusively by Pop Tarts. “I just liked hanging out with them and talking to them. Prostitutes are some of the most fascinating women I've met in the world.”

However, the “reformed” sex rehabber feels pretty confident that he’s overcome his addiction and no longer has that strong appetite for group sex.

“When I was at my most promiscuous, I was like a charging locomotive…I had a team of experts who took care of finding women for me. They had very specific instructions. It was as if I was talking to a wine steward. ‘I’m looking for something French, a bit fruity, smells of oak.’ I’ve reached a point in my life where I understand empirically that this is not the answer. When you sleep with loads of women, it becomes a bit pointless and futile."

As you may have noticed, Brand is definitely missing the self-censorship gene. His raw sense of humor came under fire in 2008 when he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards and took several digs at the Jonas Bros and their “purity rings.”

“I’m not morally opposed to the idea of sexual abstinence. It’s just not practical for me; because I’ve got to have sex…It’s the public nature of it that I find interesting. Michel Foucault, the poststructuralist French philosopher, said that in Victorian society, the preeminence and celebration of chastity was in fact the mirror of hedonism,” Brand explained. “In other words, if you’re constantly drawing attention to your abstinence from sex, you’re also drawing attention to sex. With somebody like Mick Jagger, it’s all about sex, sex, sex. But with the Jonas Brothers, it’s no sex, no sex, no sex. You see what I mean? The emphasis is still on sex.”

When he wasn’t making fun of virginity during the show, Brand was making fun of then-President George W. Bush, referring to him as “a retarded cowboy fella” – which he says sparked an array of death threats.

“It was meant as a compliment. I wasn’t remarking on Bush’s mental retardation but the fact that Americans are so forward thinking they wouldn’t object to putting a man with his limited intellectual capabilities into political office. It’s quite a compliment that you let Bush run things for as long as you did. In my country he wouldn’t have been trusted with a pair of scissors,” Brand said, adding he was “surprised” that his agency forwarded along the many death threats toward him.

And just in case you weren’t already charmed off your pants by the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star, it turns out he also stuck a Barbie Doll where the sun doesn't shine during a stand-up routine in London to protest consumerism.

“I chose the Barbie doll because it represents the oppression of women, the stereotype of femininity, the commercialization of sexuality, blah blah blah. But what I learned from the experience, at least in hindsight, is that if you’re going to make a satirical point involving putting things in your rectum, be selective,” he added. “Don’t take requests from the audience.”

You can read the full "20Q" interview in the June issue of Playboy, on stands and online May 14.