They say men are polygamous by nature or for them monogamy is not an option. And no matter how educated or illiterate they are, almost every man happens to have a few skeletons in their closet. If they didn't had any extramarital affair then it's probably because they never got a chance or they were just plain too ugly to have a second look at. And well it's fun when their private stories become public and everybody likes to judge them and enjoys the latest spiced up stories telling some of their darkest and shameful secrets. But it's interesting how people decide to punish some of them while embrace others. Let me put forward two cases.
Tiger Woods doesn't need an introduction, nor even a link to Wikipedia article, I have just added it out of habit. If you don't know about him then.....come on, that's not possible!
So this legendary golfer agreed that life is short, so he didn't had just one affair, he had like a dozen of them. Now this guy had it all, fame, fortune, a beautiful wife and two kids, still he was clearly too worried about the shortness of life. In late 2009, around 19 women claimed having an affair with him and as the media pressure increased, within a month he eventually admitted infidelity and asked for apology. He was adjudged as habitual adulterer and had to join a sexual rehab program. He paid large sums of money to many of his mistresses and his wife (to make her stay with him,) then he took leave from golf, he lost majority of the endorsement with companies terming him as 'not the right representative' for their product. In my personal opinion, even if he can't find a future in golf he still has his options. He can be asked to give lectures around the world explaining the right techniques of handling so many mistresses along with a wife and that's at the same time. I am sure many men would like to attend these lectures.
The important thing is that Tiger's fans were not happy with these affairs, Gallup survey showed that from 85% favorable rating, he plummet to 33%. Gallup editor termed it as an unprecedented drop considering 'for many years, Tiger was the most positively rated person.'
Clearly only 33% of the voters were either too happy with his dexterity at managing sexual affairs or termed it as his private affairs. Poor woods.
Now he is not the only public personality to have an extra interest in the fairer sex. If you happened to be in the nineties then you would remember a certain Bill Clinton who showed more than some interest in one of the interns working for him that's a certain Miss Lewinsky. That was probably the affair of that decade. But she wasn't the only name in his list of mischieves. The list includes Paula Jones , Kathleen Willey , Juanita Broaddrick , Gennifer Flowers, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Sally Perdue, Dolly Kyle Browning. Clinton showed a patteren throughout of his career of having extramarital affairs but accepted only two of them that's Lewinsky and Gracen. In the case of Lewinsky, this is what he had to say to the people of America,
Look at the tone of this statement! Mr. President is working for the people of America and should not be disturbed with false claims. Eventually he had to accept and this lie lead way to President's impeachment on the charge of perjury. As Hillary Clinton's biography (which is BTW the most boring piece on some of the most interesting events in the history of world, kudos to her for achieving this unachievable task) suggests, she too was mad at him and well it certainly takes a Hillary Clinton and her ambitions to pardon a cheat like Bill Clinton.
Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you
More importantly, irrespective of how much Republicans tried to use the sex scandal to sabotage his image, most of the Americans felt that this is a private matter of the President. As Gallup showed, at the start of his President-ship his approval rate was in 30s. In his second term and at the time of this renowned affair, his approval rates were around 50% and as the aftermath of impeachment's proceedings, they rose to a whooping 73%! He was eventually included in Gallup's list of most admired people of the 20th century.
So let's see, the head of the state lied by giving strong statements like above and obstructed the way of justice and..... American people were not just okay with that, they actually ended up liking him more!
So ...my only question is , what was wrong with Woods ? In fact his misdeeds are not really of national level, it's not like he is having an encounter with Lewinsky and then giving instructions to fire a missile on Osama Bin Laden. Is it the charisma of Clinton's personality or was it their party's mantra 'It's the economy, stupid!' ..... I have no idea. I am confused at the double standards showed here, either they both should have been forgiven or they both should have been punished. All I could say is , Poor woods, he didn't know it takes the looks and connections of a Bill Clinton to pull up a sex scandal.
So if you too think that life is short and you need to have an affair then you first need to call up human rights activist for equal right for philanderers.
Note : The title of this post is actually a tag line of a dating site who claim to provide means to have extra marital affairs, flings or just plain affairs : : http://www.ashleymadison.com/. Now open it on your own peril, if your partner saw it in your browsing history then they will either beat you or..... you might just end up giving them ideas, if you know what I mean ;).

