But is that a real condition or just an excuse?

John Wagoner is a psychotherapist in Winter Park who's been in private practice since 1994. A lot of his clients suffer from sexual addiction, and he describes the problem this way.

"When there's compulsive behavior either through sexual fantasy or through real people that affects a person's marriage, or family, or health or work," said Wagoner.

He stresses that the label is not one you attach easily.

"If a person has an affair, they're probably not a sex addict," said Wagoner. "When a person has multiple, compulsive affairs, then we would have to look at that. Is that possible?"

He says Tiger seems to fit the bill of someone suffering from sexual addiction, but not everyone is convinced.

"Give me a bucket so I can puke because I don't buy it," said one outspoken woman from Leesburg. "I think Elin should kick him to the curb. She's lucky if she doesn't get an STD from him. I think he's a bum."

Another woman says she sees a double standard in all this.

"He's just a narcissistic celebrity," she said. "If a woman had done this, she would never had heard the end of it. She would never have been able to plead that she was a sex addict, and if she had been a mother, she would have been raked over the coals."

Wagoner says women can be sex addicts, but the condition is very rare.

He says he's seeing the problem more and more among men in his practice, and he cites the availability of porn as a factor.

"It used to be where you had to walk into an adult bookstore," said Wagoner. "Now it's real easy to look at porn on the video or on the Internet."

He says a lot of men find themselves becoming addicted to watching the images, and that can make their spouses feel betrayed.

Wagoner says men with sexual addiction can recover, but it takes extensive counseling. He adds that even then there's usually a setback or two along the way.