Is it normal for a dad to be ok with his teen son posting nude and sex vids online?

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There's this famous teen bodybuilder on instagram who became extremely popular online posting a lot of shirtless muscle flexing pics on twitter and instagram. He starting doing it when he was 16 years old and in high school, and he said his dad even helped him get into a bunch of underwear modelling shoots since he really is a very good-looking kid.

Just a few months after he turned 18, his dad helped him out in setting up an onlyfans account, where people basically pay to subscribe for more explicit pics and videos of him. At first he just started posting a lot of pics of himself without his shirt on. Most of it were of him flexing his muscles and ripped body, pics of him working out at the gym and a bunch of shirtless bathroom selfies. Later on he then started posting more "naughty" vids of himself wearing really tight boxer-briefs. Sometimes he would even pull down on the waistband to show his pubes and sort of tease the camera.
But lately, he began posting videos of himself completely naked and taking pics of his naked body and even showing his fully erect penis. A few months later, still at 18 years old, he starting posting vids of himself masturbating which included him ejaculating, as well as a few videos of himself having sex with different girls.
In an online interview, he was asked if his parents were ok with him posting nude and sex videos of himself online, and he said that his dad knows and is ok with what he does. His dad has even seen some of the stuff on his onlyfans account and is fine with it.

Is it ok that a dad would be supportive of his teenage son posting nude and masturbation videos of himself online for money? I myself am a dad of teenage boys who are into bodybuilding and sharing pics of their body on social media, but I don't think I could ever allow my boys to starting masturbating or having sex on camera.

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  • JellyBeanBandit
    4 years ago

    I'd say it'd be normal to be ok with it but not to get involved with it. Why would his dad have needed to help him set up an online account, they're pretty easy to set up nowadays. Plus there's absolutely no reason he'd ever need to look at some of the stuff on his account, that's just wrong.

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  • Nyanga
    4 years ago

    I find it rather tasteless, but if it works for them, who am I to judge? I wonder if he would help his daughter do the same?

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  • Boojum
    4 years ago

    I'm also a parent, and I can understand your views. It sounds to me like there are some parent-child boundaries that could have been crossed here that I can't imagine ever violating.

    I have a very cynical view of social media in general, and I don't think highly of parents who encourage their children's engagement with it. I don't think it's positive that this guy's parents have encouraged him to sell himself as a product, and I think that those who base their self-value on how others judge their appearance are heading for problems in the long-run. You say he's a good-looking guy, but that will inevitably change as the years pass. Youthful good looks have a relative short Best Before date, and there will always be younger guns aiming for his target demographic.

    Having said all that, if the guy is 18, that means the law considers him no longer a child and he is no longer the responsibility of his parents or legally under their control. (Most 18 year-olds are actually pretty immature emotionally, not as smart as they believe they are, and prone to make poor decisions, but that's beside the point.)

    I can imagine the father saying he's "okay" with what the guy does simply because he doesn't want to alienate him. Loving parents often have to take a step back, let their kids make their own mistakes, keep communication channels open, and do their damndest to keep the, "I coulda told you..." tone out of their voice when the kid comes back home with his tail behind his legs looking for support.

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