Saint Augustine's failure wasn't in his lost control over his flesh so much as his failure to love the objects of his lust. If you love someone you don't lust after them- your physicality becomes then an instrument in the communication of the language of love. Lust is sin. Love is Godly. One body can have both.
If you care about someone more than yourself, you love that person more than your own life and your body then becomes another communication tool to express that love- at the expense perhaps of your vain battle of 'flesh' over spirit- which is all about you after all. If it is no longer all about you, and all about the other as yourself as we are commanded to love, the flesh/spirit battle becomes trivial and obsolete. It then becomes how do I tell you how much I love you with everything I am and have.
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