Allan

My 17 year old son is probably everything a parent would ever want. He helps with the house work & cooking, he's very intelligent (he's going to a really good university), and he actually listens to me. One day, I was looking for my son when I noticed a strange book partially concealed in his bedroom. I didn't know what it was so I opened it up at random, I instantly recognized his neat cursive writing. I read a bit of it and I was shocked into stupor by its contents! I read all of it after that, even though I knew it was an invasion of privacy. I had always thought we were open...

It contained... well I don't understand it, let alone know what to call it. Apparently everything he has done for the last 5 years was in training for his 'future master'... For example, one entry said this:

"Dear diary,

Mom just taught me how to make the best chocolate cake! I hope my future Master likes sweet stuff!"

This explains why he likes to help out all the time with housework. The diary also explains why he works so hard at school:

"Dear diary,

Sorry I haven't been making many entries lately, but I've been busy studying. This is all for my future Master... A dumb dog is only useful for being cute, but an intelligent one is an even more impressive pet!"

I'm not really surprised that he is gay, but this sounds psychotic. He didn't write anything sexual in his diary, so I don't think it's a fetish, but a lifestyle he actually wants... His first entries were from five years ago when he was just 12 years old! I have to do something soon because this is what he wrote on his 17th birthday:

"Dear diary,

It's my 17th today! Just one more year till I can finally actively search for my future Master, which is good considering this diary is almost finished. Hopefully He will be happy with this book as a gift of my thoughts and actions over the last few years about Him. If not, that's okay, because He is my owner; He can do whatever He wants with His property!"

My son is going to turn 18 in two months! I am kind of mad at him because everything which makes me proud of him was done because of this arbitrary 'future master,' rather than for himself. But more importantly, I'm afraid for his safety because it sounds like he's attracted to dangerous men who will treat him like an object! I want to do the correct thing, that's why I'm taking the risk and posting some of his journal entries. Should I let him do what he wants, or should I stop him?