Tiger Woods' Sex Addiction? Pine Grove Clinic Hosts Woods: Report

UPDATE: RadarOnline reports that police have arrived at the facility and that there is "visual indication of increased security." WLBT in Jackson, Miss. also hears from sources that Woods is at the rehab center.

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Tiger Woods sex rehab rumors continue to swirl. Earlier this week a pair of articles reported that Woods had entered a sex rehab clinic in Arizona.

Today, however, RadarOnline writes that Woods is enrolled a sex rehab center in Mississippi. Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services bills itself as "one of the nation's most comprehensive treatment campuses."

Pine Grove's "Gentle Path" program caters to sex addicts and involves two parts. First, patients undergo a Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment, which typically lasts one to two days. The Residential Treatment Program lasts an average of six weeks. The treatment includes group therapy, shame reduction work and experiential trauma work.

If Woods is indeed a sex addict, the addiction may explain the naughty text messages he allegedly sent purported mistress Jaimee Grubbs, who recently stripped down for Maxim. (Another batch of texts were later released, and Grubbs provided an alleged voicemail from Woods as well.) It would also help explain why a prominent porn executive says a woman is shopping a Tiger Woods sex tape to his company. A phone sex tape has also been rumored.

X17 reported in late December that Woods was in an Arizona sex rehab clinic. Earlier in December, another report claimed Woods entered rehab in Arizona for "sexual compulsion" as well as Vicodin and Ambien use.

Tiger Woods has been described as "a sex addict who relentlessly pursued women." One woman, Jaime Jungers (PICTURES), claims to have had sex with Woods the night his father died. Jungers also said she and Tiger had "wild" and "crazy" sex. A porn star (NSFW pictures) who may have worked as an escort (more NSFW pictures) says her sex with Woods was a "sensual experience," and she earlier called sleeping with him "amazing" in a video for a porn web site.

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Women linked to Tiger Woods:

• Susie Ogren says she took ecstasy with Woods and he hoped to "get me into bed."
• Playboy model Loredana Jolie.
• 40-something "cougar" Theresa Rogers: picture.
• NSFW pictures of porn star Joslyn James.
• NSFW pictures of porn star Holly Sampson.
• Mindy Lawton, who claims Woods is "very well endowed."
• Pictures of Jamie Jungers, alleged Tiger Woods mistress.
• The latest Jaimee Grubbs pictures.
• Photo and video of another alleged mistress, Kalika Moquin.
• More pictures of Jaimee Grubbs.
• Pictures of Rachel Uchitel.
• Additional pictures of Uchitel.
• Cori Rist, Woods' sixth alleged mistress.

• Pictures of Woods' ex-girlfriend, Joanna Jagoda.
• Pictures of Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.
• Text messages Tiger Woods allegedly sent Jaimee Grubbs.
• The voicemail Woods allegedly left Grubbs.
• Photographs of the storied clients that Rachel Uchitel's attorney has represented over the years.

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Comments

[john mcalister]

09:15 AM on 01/28/2010

I can not believe we are actually having a public debate about whether Tiger Woods and other sexual addicts like him are 'sick' puppies or simply voraciously lustful sinners! Since when does addictive behavior of any kind exempt one from an ethical judgment? We don’t wring our collective hands over whether a pedophile is guilty of sin! Whether someone is also ’sick’ or not may provide fodder for the gossip addicts, it has no real bearing on whether they are in fact a sinner.
The fact that we are even having this debate is defacto proof that we desperately need a non-theistic ethical standard to judge behavioral norms.
John W. McAlister
www.Ethical-Universe.com

[Blackorpheus]

03:21 PM on 01/20/2010

My understanding is that Pine Grove's primary modality for treating sex addiction is chemical castration. Am I misinformed?

[Anonani]

06:49 PM on 01/21/2010

Whatever that means?

[Blackorpheus]

01:24 AM on 01/22/2010

You're saying that you don't know what "chemical castration" means?

[Vinca]

07:33 AM on 01/19/2010

I heard on Headline News that Tiger was at the Pine Grove Clinic. I believe that is true.

[Philclock]

05:25 AM on 01/19/2010

Tiger knows what he's doing, he had a double.

[Shake-A-Spear]

01:34 PM on 01/18/2010

Tiger WHO???
This is all becoming stale news.

[Sobeton]

01:31 PM on 01/18/2010

can you people just leave the man alone? Jeez!

[SouthernYankeeBelle]

05:54 PM on 01/18/2010

These people have nothing better to do than to worry about his sex life. This isn't our business now. Let it go.

[Shake-A-Spear]

01:20 PM on 01/18/2010

Sex rehab might well ruin Toger's game.
Consider what happened to Samson once he had his hair cut.

[duxguts]

06:53 AM on 01/19/2010

He's not there for a hair cut.

[Shake-A-Spear]

08:29 AM on 01/19/2010

Are you all that literal-minded, witless, or thick?

[ebanks84]

09:33 AM on 01/18/2010

This is such a NON-STORY that I am surprised that it was even printed. First of all, ALL MEN are sex addicts dam near. And a lot of women are also. SO WHAT? That is this man's personal business, not fodder for the press.

Second, why even mention the police in the article. What do they have to do with what was reported here? The whole article is just based on innuendos and probabilities, NOT FACT!

Third, is there a law or ruling somewhere that determines someone is a "sex addict"? How can people come out of the woodwork with diagnoses that they are supposedly experienced in and say such crap on national TV without bona fide credentials?

Give me a break!

[Anonani]

01:45 PM on 01/18/2010

Fanned!

[David Eisenbach]

09:41 PM on 01/18/2010

totally agree

[FZliveson]

04:32 AM on 01/18/2010

Blah Blah Blah.
I am done watching golf on TV, even if TIGER is there.
I never was influenced by Tiger being an icon for products but
I will steer away from them in the future.
I honored my marriage vows for 20 years while travelling a lot overseas.
My spouse got lonely while I was away and our marriage ended.
I wouldn't watch if she golfed on TV either.

Too bad Tiger. You blew it royally. Enjoy your money and puttering around in someone else's garden.

[Sobeton]

01:33 PM on 01/18/2010

we don't care if you never watch golf and I'm sure Tiger does not for sure.

Live your own life!

[carljr]

06:36 PM on 01/17/2010

Last night I saw the most bizarre commentary on this situation of all. CNN had New York Post columnist and noted sex addiction expert Ashley Dupre on the tube commenting on Tiger Woods. You know, the Ashley Dupre who got her degress in graduate sex addition at the University of Spitzer and did her undergraduate work on the call girl circuit..

Anybody else find this a little depraved and weird?

[Anonani]

10:29 PM on 01/17/2010

Our moral compass is askew!

[CessnaDriver]

11:55 PM on 01/17/2010

She's as much a sex expert as I am a Nuclear Engineer because I drove by San Onofre on my way to San Deigo.

[Rangergirl]

09:49 AM on 01/17/2010

Why do they have a picture of one of the ho's with Tiger?

[BowlingForRevenge]

04:33 AM on 01/17/2010

What is the big deal about Tiger having sex the night his father died.
That keeps being brought up in article after article.
Except for the fact it wasn't with his wife it was pretty doggone normal and beneficial.

[Winthorpe]

09:09 PM on 01/16/2010

Sex addiction -- what a scam.

I'm watching a lot of football this weekend. I can't help it -- I'm an addict! Somebody help me.

[LeawoodKansas]

12:34 AM on 01/17/2010

Arizona is a good place to be if you want to give up football.

[kynycmbp]

03:08 PM on 01/17/2010

My father is a sex addict. It's not scam, although I will admit it is disgusting.

I found out about my father's addiction when I was 16. From various step mothers I have heard what caused them to finally leave my father. For step mother #3, it was finding my father in their bed with 2 women whom he had met whenhe took my 5 year old half brother to the park. He left my brother in front of cartoons and repaired to the bedroom with women he had only met an hour before. Too many stories like this.

When my father entered his 60s he was no longer attractive to the younger women he preferred, so his sex addiction morphed into a gambling addiction. He bankrupted himself and step mother #5. He also tried to identity theft several of his own children.

It's real. It's addictive behaviour and it can morph into other forms. He is a narcissist with addive personality disorder. He won't accept is addiction and he will only harm those who are close to him.

So I do hope that Tiger Woods is getting help and does accept and face his addiction.

[Winthorpe]

04:36 PM on 01/17/2010

I'm sorry about your father's behavior, but "sex addiction" is still not listed in DSM-IV. It might be a combination of personality disorders in his case.

Dr. Herbert Kleber, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, is the Director of the Division on Substance Abuse. When I asked him about sexual addiction, he said: "Is it an addiction? I'm convinced gambling is an addiction but am agnostic about sexual addiction. Once you let one of them in the door do you let in shopaholics, kleptomaniacs, etcetera? Where do you draw the line?"

[Anonani]

08:07 AM on 01/18/2010

Addictions of whatever type are compulsive behaviors. I don't know if Tiger has a compulsive disorder, only his doctor does. I trust that IF he is in treatment that he gains some insight into the source of his proclivity to bed multiple women despite his marital status. The beginning of change is in understanding the source of the problem ....many long years of guided introspection and a desire to change are critical components of this change. Just because some aren't aware of the psychological etiology of behavior doesn't mean it isn't valid or credible. Whether a compulsive or just plain old narcissism that somethings comes with wealth and privilege, I hope that he is in treatment.

[Bruce vain]

09:09 PM on 01/16/2010

I am an addict....and I don't want no stinking cure

[CessnaDriver]

10:12 PM on 01/17/2010

Doctor! Doctor! Everytime I sneeze, I have a orgasm!

What are you taking for it?

Pepper!

[HoosierRadical]

08:44 PM on 01/16/2010

Maybe it just me, but I rather admit to be a jerk of a husband than a sex addict. The later just seems so gross to me.