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One of his earlier projects was the TV show Jeeves and Wooster, a show which featured a comically-reckless and romantically evasive English gentleman and his ever-resourceful ‘personal gentleman’s gentleman’. Throughout the show’s six seasons, Stephen Fry as Jeeves, helped Bertie Wooster escape matrimonial obligations from a multitude of women Bertie had engaged either himself against his own will or through his aunt against his own will.
The subtle tone of the show was Bertie’s preference to remain in a state of bliss through his master-servant relationship with Jeeves rather than enter into a marriage where he would have to live a life of responsibility. Stephen Fry, through his own preference, maintains the desire to love and be loved by other human beings but refuses to incorporate sex into a physical relationship. Fry describes his reasoning for this as ‘a pleasure which leaves you satisfied stops being a pleasure the moment it has been enjoyed.. What follows? Mostly guilt, flatulence and self-disgust.’ Fry of course refers here also to the pleasure of food which has a similar effect upon the person.
The first logical conclusion is that food and sex are identical pleasures and should therefore be enjoyed together (like alcohol and drugs for example), the other is that food is an excellent initiator to sex or even serves as a replacement, but the third is that like food sex can be consumed carefully and in frequent, satiable doses leaving a feeling of prolonged satisfaction in anticipation of the next event of satisfaction while the body builds an appetite. The truth is happiness depends on how freely we respond to our desires and by suppressing cravings and yearnings we are encouraging our body to despise us and commencing a downwards spiral which can culminate in a general disagreement between mind and body known as frustration.
In fairness to Fry he reasons with the underlying sense that his body is free of these desires and it may be that his stimuli keep him occupied beyond physical desire. Great achievements of humanity such as Hans Christian Andersen or Sir Isaac Newton maintained only emotional relationships and used their lives to set free their own fields. The question that must really be asked is whether the feelings of guilt, flatulence and self-disgust are worth the risk of being carried away into over-indulgence.
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