Tiger Woods’s Sex Addiction
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Tiger Woods is undergoing treatment for sex addiction.
Which means nothing he did was his fault. It’s an illness. A syndrome. He couldn’t have kept his pants zipped if he’d tried.
I guess the thirteenth step will be suing Gatorade and all the others companies that dropped him as spokesman. Americans With Disabilities Act, y’know.
If I seem mildly skeptical, it might have something to do with his choice of partners: If you’re a sports hero, one of the most recognized celebrities in the world, and beautiful women throw themselves at you, there are two possible responses, neither of which involve a psychological impairment: You can say “Hell yeah!” or “No thanks.”
(Some might say the latter is the abnormal response, but I digress)
If he’s running onto the back room for sex with the 68-year-old, chain-smoking waitress at Denny’s who says “You want some dessert with that? Wink wink… wheeze…” then okay, we’re talking an addiction that needs professional help. But the supermodel types he’s been publicly linked to? That’s “hell yeah” territory. Bill Clinton should have done so well.