richard burton by rupert everett

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I taped the tv program by everett about richard burton and saw it today.
Before that I happened to read a passing reference to burton in A.A. Gill's 'previous conviction', about the royal geographical society RGS, where he mentioned Speke, who founded the source of the Nile and mentioned Richard Burton was too ill to join him, and so missed out on sharing the fame.
Rupert traced his journey and mentioned that Burton was sent to spy on the British soldiers who frequented the male brothels and his description of the sexual activities with the boys and eunuchs there put his reputation at risk. For the implication was whether he tried them himself to be able to describe it all so graphically. I would certainly love to read his account of it. But though there are lots of books on his translations of the perfumed garden, karmasutra and arabian nights there is nothing on this account of his visits to a male brothel. The other books talk of male-female congress and there is only a small part devoted to gay sex in a section about eunuchs.
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/kama-sutra-homosexuality.htm
In the tv documentary, Burton was quoted compares the male body to the female body, saying the male figure is notably superior to the female, saying the female form is 'graceful but meaningless and monotonous whilst the male far excels it in variety of form and sinew, and there will be a score of fine male figures to one female.'
That does not sound like a heterosexual talking.