Lawyers try to ban Tiger Woods sex doll

Lawyers for Tiger Woods are reported to be trying to halt the sale of a series of sex toys which exploit the golfer's new-found reputation as a sex maniac. They include a 'Take Home Tiger Love Doll' and packages of 'wood cover' super-size condoms.

The items are for sale on the website of Pipedream Products, which advertises such handy products as "the world's first rotating vibrating cordless masturbator". In other words, this is NOT the John Lewis white goods department.

Probably the most offensive in the Tiger range - offensive to Woods and his family, at any rate - is the doll. "Just add air and this cocky champ will share his Major-winning wood with you," runs the promo.

Pipedream is advertising its Tiger products as being "available for a very limited time only" - and that's certainly the wish of the golfer's lawyers. The US gossip site TMZ.com has got hold of a lawyer's letter to Pipedream demanding the company stops selling the products, recalls all items that have already been distributed and then destroys or disposes of them "in a manner and at a time as directed by Tiger Woods".

Or, as TMZ put it neatly, "Tiger Woods' lawyer is trying to do something Tiger wasn't even able to do himself - keep the golfer's private parts out of random peoples' hands".

This isn't the first time lawyers have been called to deal with dodgy products in the wake of the Tiger Woods scandal. In February, we reported on the efforts of Joslyn James, one of his extramarital girlfriends, to halt the sale of a set of "mistress" golf balls - each ball decorated with the face of one of Tiger's conquests.

James, a former porn star, told a press conference at the time: "As a victim of violence myself, it bothered me to think that someone would be standing with a dangerous club in their hands and hitting a ball with my face on it."

James also heaped more humiliation on Woods yesterday by publishing what she claimed were the texts she had been sent by the golfer during their affair.

The messages were published on her website and revealed details of Woods's sexual proclivities as well as the way he conducted his affairs.

One message reads: "I would like to have a threesome with you and another girl you trust." He later texted: "I want to treat you rough. Throw you around. Spank and slap you."

Other texts instruct James when and where to meet Woods in the hotel where he was staying. But one of the final texts, sent in October last year, reveals how difficult Woods was finding it to keep is double life under wraps.

In a furious message he told James: "Don't fucking talk to me. You almost just ruined my whole life. If my agent and these guys would have seen you there, fuck." ·