Exactly a year to the day since he threatened to leave Twitter because he thought there was "too much aggression and unkindness around", Fry posted "Bye Bye" on his account. 
 
 The tweet to his 1,910,676 followers came after Fry claimed he was misquoted over comments suggesting that women were incapable of enjoying sex. 
 
 The openly homosexual broadcaster, who claimed he was celibate for 16 years, finding the idea of sex disgusting, said it was clear that women had no interest in sex from the fact that they do not go out seeking casual encounters in graveyards or on Hampstead Heath. 
 
 He claimed that women only go to bed with men “because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship”. 
 
 Fry’s remarks have been branded “rubbish” and "madness" by feminists who have questioned his qualifications for making pronouncements on female sexuality. 
 
 The 53-year-old, who hosts the popular quiz show QI on BBC1, launched the bizarre tirade in an interview published in the November issue of Attitude magazine. 
 
 He said: "If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas. Women would go and hang around in churchyards thinking: 'God, I've got to get my f------- rocks off', or they'd go to Hampstead Heath and meet strangers to shag behind a bush. 
 
 “It doesn't happen. Why? Because the only women you can have sex with like that wish to be paid for it." 
 
 He continued: "I feel sorry for straight men. The only reason women will have sex with them is that sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship with a man, which is what they want. 
 
 “Of course, a lot of women will deny this and say, 'Oh no, but I love sex, I love it!' But do they go around having it the way that gay men do?" 
 
 Germaine Greer, the eminent feminist author and academic, said Fry’s remarks were “gratuitous” and accused the broadcaster of having “delusions of grandeur”. 
 
 She said: “Stephen Fry is clearly under a delusion that he is an authority on female sexuality. Well, if he thinks that women are not interested in genital encounters with total strangers then he is absolutely right. But to conclude that we are therefore uninterested in sex is madness. 
 
 “It is true that men have an interest in a kind of sex which women find infinitely depressing, and it’s true that women really don’t want to hang around toilets hoping that someone will come along and play with their bits. That is not what passion is about for us and we would be placing ourselves in mortal danger if it was. 
 
 “Women have an idea of passion which men like Stephen can’t even begin to imagine. What women yearn for is intimacy. The fact that for women sex is an integral part of closeness doesn’t mean we are any less interested in it.’ 
 
 Rosie Boycott, the feminist journalist, also denounced Fry’s outburst as “rubbish”. 
 
 She said: “Women are just as capable as men are of enjoying sex. We don't go cruising or cottaging on Hampstead Heath because we don't need to.” 
 
 Paul Flynn, the journalist who interviewed Fry, said: "I thought it was quite an odd generalisation to make at the time, but he delivered it with certainty and it was clearly something he'd thought about." 
 
 Fry also used his interview to disclose details of the “extraordinary underworld” of cottaging – anonymous sex between homosexual men in public lavatories - with which he was “slightly obsessed” in his youth. 
 
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 Fry, who is openly homosexual, found himself at the centre of a row at the weekend after he claimed that women only go to bed with men "because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship". 
 
 He added: "If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas. Women would go and hang around in churchyards thinking: 'God, I've got to get my f------- rocks off', or they'd go to Hampstead Heath and meet strangers to shag behind a bush." 
 
 The 53-year-old faced a storm of criticism after the comments were published in a Sunday newspaper and responded by announcing his departure from Twitter in an angry post on the micro-blogging website. 
 
 He wrote to his 1,918,518 followers: "So some f----- paper misquotes a humorous interview I gave, which itself misquoted me and now I'm the Antichrist. I give up." 
 
 Fry followed the first message with a second that simply read: "Bye bye" and changed his biography to read: "No longer in service". 
 
 His departure prompted a flurry of panic among his millions of followers who flooded Twitter sympathetic messages bearing the hash-tag #weloveStephenFry. 
 
 It came a year to the day after Fry temporarily abandoned Twitter because he thought there was "too much aggression and unkindness around". 
 
 But he returned for the second time today to share the link to his latest blog post and write: "Hello there! Thought it was time I had a little blog. To set the record straight. Or straightish." 
 
 Explaining his decision to leave on his blog, he wrote: "You may wonder why I duck out of Twitter at such times: well it may seem pusillanimous but it’s really, as I have said, just to avoid being sympathised with or told about an article I would otherwise never have got wind of. I soon enough slink back and before long it’s as if nothing happened. Clears the air. Does good on all sides." 
 
 The broadcaster also declared that he would never give another print interview, any more than he would consent to be: "mugged, raped or burgled". 
 
 He said that he did not mean his original remarks to be taken as "some eternal gender truth" and said he was simply "taking a thought for a walk". 
 
 Fry added: "I know that women enjoy sex. If women also say (and I’m in no position to agree or disagree with them) that they have as equally insistent and urgent libidos as men then I have no doubt that must be true also. It is perhaps sad to think that they are as pathetically in the grip of a base and humiliating need to get their rocks off as men are, but if that is the case then that is the case and god knows I’m no expert on the subject." 
 
 His return was met with delight by his legion of loyal fans on Twitter. 
 
 One woman, tweeting under the name bonniegrrl, wrote: "Twitter without @StephenFry is like a cupcake without icing! Thank the Bluebird his bio now says: "Normal service being resumed..." 
 
 Another user wrote to Fry: "Glad you're ok. You left us alone with the haters - you have to ignore them as we do."
– Britain's most popular tweeter has apparently quit Twitter after being lambasted for comments about women's sexuality. Actor Stephen Fry tweeted "Bye Bye" to his 1.9 million followers after he claimed he was misquoted in a magazine interview that women don't enjoy sex. According to the interview, the homosexual celebrity, 53, said women obviously aren't interested in sex because they don't seek out casual encounters on the street, reports the Telegraph. He said women only have sex because that's "the price they are willing to pay" for a relationship. "If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas," the magazine Attitude quotes him as saying. "Women would go and hang around in churchyards thinking: 'God, I've got to get my f****ing rocks off', or they'd go to Hampstead Heath and meet strangers to shag behind a bush." He added: "I feel sorry for straight men." Fry insists he was misquoted in the story that triggered a firestorm of criticism, though he hasn't clarified his comments. "Now I'm the AntiChrist," he complained. (Click here for a list of celebs who should quit Twitter.)