A 15-year-old boy is asking for legal help after his parents allegedly set up security cameras in his bedroom to stop him playing with himself.

The teenager took to Reddit to try and find a lawyer who will take up his privacy case.

The unnamed youngster, from Alaska, claims his dad burst into his room while he was pleasuring himself.

He says that during a family chat, his parents banned him from touching himself ever again.

The teenager is now seeking legal advice because he believes the ban is against his human rights.

“What can I do?” he asked in the subreddit r/legaladvice.

“I’m 15 and think I should be allowed to touch my own body, this is embarrassing and destroys my privacy … Please help.”

He said he learned “some things” from e internet because he wasn’t allowed in sex education classes.

“My dad barged in without knocking and started screaming at me," he wrote. "He and my mom then sat me down and told me I’m not allowed to touch myself."

The mortified teen agreed not to do it anymore and later found an Amazon package with indoor security cameras inside.

“I asked my dad and he said they are putting them in my room and bathroom so they can monitor and make sure I’m not masturbating,” he wrote.

His parents said they will now be checking the cameras daily to make sure their son sticks to his word, according to the redditor.

“I said that wasn’t OK and he said that I agreed to not masturbate and this is holding me to the agreement,” he wrote.

The Daily Dot checked on his behalf with Nicholas Bala, a family and children’s law expert.

He said even adolescents “have some right to privacy,” and the parents would be seen as out of line in many jurisdictions — if not all.

“In almost all jurisdictions there would be a number of offenses involved in video recording a minor engaged in a sexual act, even by himself,” Bala said. “The fact that it is his parents and they own the home would not be a defence.”

Bala said the best course of action for the teen to take is talking with a trusted adult or his paediatrician — who would most likely give the parents an “educational talk.”

Another solution Bala offered is calling an adolescent helpline or Child Protective Services.

Bala said CPS wouldn’t necessarily take away the teen away from the parents, especially if they are good parents.

CPS would instead send a social worker to the home to talk with them in hopes of remedying the situation.

Redditors also offered the teen advice, with many concerned for his privacy.

“Regardless of whether or not you’re masturbating (which is completely normal) you need to have a reasonable amount of privacy while you’re using the bathroom and changing,” one redditor replied.

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