Tiger Woods Is in Sex Rehab, Claims New York Times Writer
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A writer published in the New York Times Magazine reveals that Tiger Woods is currently a patient at Gentle Path -- a sex addiction program at Pine Grove, a treatment center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Benoit Denizet-Lewis, who has written extensively about his own sex addiction, wrote on his personal blog Monday that a source confirmed Woods' stay at the clinic. Denizet-Lewis, who interviewed staff and patients at the center for his book America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, notes that Gentle Path's program "is directed by Patrick Carnes, one of the world's leading experts on sex addiction." The treatment center would not confirm the identity of any of its patients.
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The official website for Pine Grove says that the Gentle Path program is "for those suffering from sexual addiction, relationship addiction and sexual anorexia."
Denizet-Lewis speculates that Woods, 34, may have begun his sex addiction treatment elsewhere -- such as the Meadows treatment center in Arizona, where the golfer had allegedly also been spotted.
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The reporter explains that the usual regimen at sex addiction centers nationwide includes group therapy sessions as well as family and couple's therapy. "If Tiger and his wife, Elin, are serious about repairing their marriage," he writes, "she will be spending some time in Hattiesburg with Tiger." Another typical requirement: patients must sign a "celibacy contract" -- a promise "not to have sex with anyone, or to masturbate, while in treatment," Denizet-Lewis explains.
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In his book, Denizet-Lewis writes of other typical sex-clinic practices, including "empathy letters" for unfaithful married men and "cost letters" for their wives:
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"Men who had repeatedly cheated on their wives had to write 'empathy letters' to them, which would never be sent but were read in group and usually criticized for not being nearly empathetic enough. The wives, meanwhile, wrote painful 'cost letters'--detailing how the addiction had affected them--that were read to their husbands for the first time in group by another group member."
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55I'm so sick of people blaming selfishness on a "disease." It's a huge money maker for rehab centers though.
sex addiction is real people but only 6% of people suffer from it. I dont know if Tiger is a sex addict. he could be just a jerk? either way we will never know. and whoever thought they knew him before this scandal needs therapy. No one knows who these people are. we have to admire them for their talent not their personality. We dont know them like we know our friends. people honestly need to get a life. im reading comments from people as if tiger is hurting them not Elin. Pleassse, Elin has friends, family and money to fall back on. There are women out there that had many children with their husband and their husbands leaves them broke.
good for him only if its true that he's really getting help , hope he doesn't come back n hump everything in sight ..lol
Imagine how many blonde blue eyed does are in the Hattiesburg Miss area under the age of 22......If Elin is leaving him what is he doing this for? RESPECT, to save his career?
6 weeks of letter writing, etc... will not change behavior that has been imprinted since childhood. The man endangered his wife and family with his activities. The only people getting anything from this is the man who owns the center for this so called treatment with the pr from media sources...oh please get real.
The NY Times magazine must not be quite up on their reporting response. Everyone who lives in Hattiesburg knew Tiger Woods was here a week ago...
rip the bucks from man and give him respectable facade for his blunders
I'm a dude, can't get enuf hot broads.
I'm here with Hef trying to figure out the Playmate of the Year, he he, if ya know what I mean.
Personally, this is the worst what I can imagine: Going to therapy and sitting in a group of strangers. I am on Elin's side but seriously ... Tiger ... rich, spoiled, pampered, and god knows what else going for this ... priceless ... it seems he really wants to save his marriage.
I just *love* how the responsibility of willful bad behavior can now be classified as an â??illnessâ?? (to further shed actual responsibility). If the â??rehabâ?? falls anything short of castration then itâ??s just a PR ploy for the rich meant to deceive spouses and the public.
how can a man with a wife and kids even THINK of having affairs with other women???? where are the MORALS??? what a lost man.
TW's behavior was set from childhood and unlikely to change after a 6 week stint of "letter writing,etc..." The only one making out like a bandit is the Dr. and center from the pr on this event. There is something pathologically wrong with a man when he is willing to endanger his spouse with the exposure to so many partners the way TW did. Hope Elin and the children are able to live a healthy life and have a better future.
If someone is a public figure, making their millions off the public, tghen what they do is public, if they can't stand the heat then they should get out of the kitchen. This is a gossip mag, and that is just what us here.
if you don't have photographic proof, ya got nothing, how about asking his d a m n agent?????????
you guys are just a bunch of kidders, like that old fool Russell Simmons saying I was giving 3 million dollars, I don't even give my girls that kind of money, sex addiction like it's a disease or something, I'm just chilling playing my latest Tiger Woods golf on EA Sports, later
Tiger's problem is his POWER and MONEY. He thinks he's infaliable and should be able and allowed to do whatever HE wants. Doesn't care who he hurts. His other problem is, he's obviously a pathelogical liar. A liar will ALWAYS be a liar, they never change. He has some real mental issues. He has chosen his lifestyle, he should have NEVER gotten married and had kids. He should have stayed a slu**y playboy and not caused his wife and kids pain, for they would have never existed if he had stayed single which he should have done. Can't wait till his kids are older and find out what a rotten, lying lowlife cheat of a person their dad is. Tiger is s*um.
A 'cost' letter from Elin. That is too funny. I hope she writes '$300 million' and leaves it at that.
I'll never be able to look at a Nike product again without thinking about Tiger Woods and his sex "disease." Yuk!
This is Mr. and Mrs. Woods business. Frankly- I don't think this article should have been written. It's personal and not for us to comment on.