Strange chat about men who work on oil rigs

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So, I've either been living under a rock or my friend is full of crap.
My partner works on oil rigs ... home every few months for a few months.
I saw that he had liked sexy pics of a woman he didn't know on ig. Pulled him up on it and that was the end of that as far as I was concerned.
My friend however announced this morning that riggers are notorious for online affairs/ interactions and general Inappropriate on line behaviour with women..
Utter tosh or am I blinded?

...and male teachers, and drs. Apparently

Seriously, if men were saying 'women in these jobs are notoriously loose, promiscuous, and take cocaine' - there would be outage.

Stop the male bashing. And generalising.

It sad she had to change her behaviour to stop being sexually assaulted rather than the men being told to stop sexually abusing her 😡

I mean they are isolated on a rig - at the very least they’re watching a lot of porn and doing online stuff (possibly spurred on by others there), probably if young they’re drinking too much when they go ashore and for some I’m sure they’re are drugs.

The drinking and Porn stuff? Whatever it’s to be expected. I wouldn’t pry, like I say what do you expect so why poke your nose in?

Yeah there’s probably cheating that goes on, obviously don’t accept that, but I guess you have to make the decision to either trust your partner not to or not.

liking Insta pics is really nothing though. It’s lamer than tame.

Why don’t you set up a fake account and message him, that way you’ll know if he’s the type to have online affairs.

I have worked offshore many times and can't say I have every been sexually harassed, all the guys have always been lovely and really helpful and friendly over the years.

Cheating is rift though as is prostitution with the international workers.

Anyone who thinks any different is kidding themselves.

I was chatting to my husband who works offshore and agrees many many men are up to not good. But not all, some value their wives and families. It's not just oil rigs though any man that works away from home, especially abroad could potentially being using hookers etc. and wives would most likely have no clue.

The sex workers industry is a booming business.

My neighbour's ex husband worked on rigs in the Far East. He had a mid-life crisis one Summer when at home and admitted to strings of affairs and a liking for Thai lady-boys. Needless to say, he was thrown out pretty quickly followed by divorce.

Grim and a shame for his wife

Ex partner (over 20 years ago) was a surveyor on a rig. He was actually from a quite posh Scottish family. When we met he told me how awful he had found the behaviour on the rigs. About the streamed porn and the prostitutes. We met at college doing our master degrees after he had left the industry.

Turned out he had slept with prostitutes in Scotland, I know he had visited Thailand on his own so god only knows what went on there, and I left him when I discovered illegal Images on our computer. Not saying they are all like this but I suspect the environment normalises disgusting attitudes to women and this is internalised by some of those working in that environment.

You would never ever have guessed this. He was quite shy, lefty, said all the right things about the other men. Was actually a dark devious sleazebag.

I once got the changeover train down from Aberdeen. Once. I absolutely, 100% changed my diary in order to never, never be stuck in a confined place with a carriage full of riggers again.

This happened to me once. I was about 9 or 10 I think and my Dad had taken me for a day trip on trains all the way to Inverness, then to Aberdeen and then back home. I can still remember it now. Train was full of riggers. They were drinking and swearing and throwing things. There was nowhere else for my Dad to take me to sit. I'd never heard language like that before. Eventually one of the older riggers noticed that we were there and shouted at the others to tone it down a bit as there was a "little girl" in the carriage. And they did, for about half an hour or so... until it all started up again.

Don't know what it's like on a rig... but I can imagine it's a bit boring... what are they going to do in their spare time but watch porn and cheat?