A 15-year-old boy in Alaska has claimed that his parents set up security cameras in his bedroom and bathroom to make sure he doesn't masturbate.

The anonymous teen took to Reddit's legal advice section to ask for help this week.

'What can I do?' he wrote in the subreddit r/legal advice. 'I'm 15 and think I should be allowed to touch my own body. This is embarrassing and destroys my privacy, please help.'

The teen revealed that his parents caught him masturbating earlier this month.

'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.'

A 15-year-old boy in Alaska took to Reddit to ask for legal advice after he said his parents set up security cameras in his bedroom and bathroom to make sure he doesn't masturbate

The teen said his father barged into his bedroom earlier this month without knocking. Afterwards his parents sat him down and said he wasn't allowed to masturbate (file photo)

The teen said his parents are against sexual activities before marriage. He wasn't even allowed to participate in his school's sex education classes - leaving him to only learn 'some things' on the internet'.

Although the boy promised his parents he wouldn't masturbate anymore, he said his word wasn't good enough for them.

The teen found an Amazon package at his home and discovered there were 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,' the boy wrote.

They told the teen that they would check the cameras every day to make sure he didn't dare masturbate.

'I said that wasn't okay, and he said that I agreed to not masturbate and this is holding me to the agreement,' the boy wrote.

Fellow Redditors told the teen that his behavior was perfectly normal and suggested that he talk to another adult about what his parents were doing.

'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 person wrote.

Although the boy promised his parents he wouldn't masturbate anymore, he found an Amazon package at his home and discovered there were indoor security cameras inside (file photo)

'However you feel comfortable pursuing this, please realize that you are a normal kid, exhibiting normal, natural, and healthy behaviors, another added.

Family law expert Jacqueline Newman told DailyMail.com that the teen would likely be able to argue that they have a right to privacy in their own home.

'This is not a young child,' she said. 'I think a court would take it seriously what their rights are, that they're entitled to in their bathroom and in their bedroom.'

Newman said she found the case 'destructive' and 'unhealthy on so many levels' and said some could even argue that filming the teen could border on a 'child porn situation', even if the parents weren't using the cameras for such a purpose.

But Newman said she believes that, even if police or Child Protective Services became involved, it is unlikely the boy would taken from his home.

'I think that's extreme, unless this is the tip of the iceberg and there's more to be discovered,' she said.

'To lose your parental rights, there have to be some serious allegations and proof. To put this child in some sort of foster home, I can't imagine a court would see that as a better solution.'

'I think there's just some serious parenting classes that have to go on there.'