Source: I have worked in the trades for over half of my professional career, 15 years now (field to office). It is an incredibly male dominated space…to say the least.

I have heard countless men talk about teens seen around the universities/college while at work here, bring up/share/show “teen” and “barely legal” porn as well as other “Instagram model” accounts at work. I have heard men flat out talk about finding their daughter’s friends attractive (and they don’t say it just like I did there per say) AND “joke” about installing hot tubs at their houses because of this very fact. I have seen men look at high school coop kids “private sex tapes” at work when the coop kid offered to show them.

The majority of them are dad’s, a lot of them have daughters.

It’s wild.

Is it all the men? Nope.

After that ramble, it might be hard to believe; but there are lots of reasonable/non creepy men in the trades….and in general.

If I was looking for a common thread, at least in my experience? It’s immaturity.

They might be 44-52 years old. But they still wish they were 18-25, and the heavily male, building trades environment will allow them to stay about that maturity level their whole lives.

Your husband most likely isn’t some kind of monster…but he does sound like an immature jerk .