Yes. The gay perspective.
What's all this fuss about 13 women? I don't have the details, but he doesn't seem to have had them in 14 days; which would have made him a popular hero like the boy at school who used to wank publicly, to great applause, 6 or 7 times a day. I've known a number of gay men who made it a matter of conscience to have a different partner every night of the week - you have probably known some yourselves. I never, even in my most testosterone-fuelled days, made it more than 9 or 10 days in a fortnight, but I learned early on that there is no better way way of relaxing and recharging your batteries for the next day's challenges and stresses than having sex with a stranger. Great times! I wouldn't be surprised if his sexual adventures had contributed importantly to the calm and precision of his game.
Of course, Tiger Woods was cheating on his wife. About this particular form of hypocrisy I'm not an expert, but it is not in a cynical spirit that I say most men do. The fight between animal nature and the idealistic prescriptions of religion and society is never-ending, and Peter UK's reference above to major and minor wives was not, I hope, tongue-in-cheek.
The loathsome immorality here is not that of Tiger Woods; it is that of the world that sucks in distinguished and talented people and turns them into what they are not in order to exploit their names for commercial purposes, and then spits them out when they cease to be useful or usable. And we let it happen, because we are all guilty of succumbing to the foulness of the kind of journalism that affords us the chance to do what we like best - to gloat and feel outraged at the same time. Nothing more satisfying! That is our immorality.
We live in a very imperfect society. (And that's a very heavily edited version of what I originally wrote!)
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