Teenage boy & sexual pictures on Facebook

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This is my first posting and I don't know the conventions here - may even be posting this in the wrong place.
Multiple things going wrong in my relationship with 15 year old son, but would like ideas from others about what they think about kids posting sexually quite explicit (grabbing, kids stripped to underwear etc etc) photos on FB. Especially when the kids have been round at my house and in son's bedroom with the door closed.
He is furious with me for asking him to take the photos off FB, "What do you know?" and refuses to do anything about it. I'd tried to have a rational discussion about how images can be saved and used, but he knows best.
I'm thinking about stopping kids coming round unless he keeps his door open, but then he'll only go elsewhere. But I also feel concerned about what other parents might think if they see the photos too.
I'm not trying to stiop him/them being sexual - I'm realistic and remember myself at 15. But we didn't have the internet then.
Add this to the general mix of not working much at school and challenging every boundary I set, and life's not much fun at the moment.
Sorry - ranting here. But I'd welcome others' viewpoints.

Theadjka, it's 16.

abouteve, fb don't have the resources to check EVERY picture posted, they rely on other members to report indecent images & when you sign up you agree not to post indecent pictures. So OPs son has flouted fb rules, and can have his account suspended.

OP, I would either 1) remove pics from fb myself. If no password is forthcoming, then 2) report the images to fb via your own account (if you don't have one set one up for this purpose.

Then I would take the pics off pc, and clear the hard drive, camera/phone (whichever he takes the pics on) would be confiscated. Internet use SEVERELY restricted or stopped altogether for a period of time you feel suitable.

Full account access to fb, msn (you can save convos) , email, other sites etc to be given to YOU & checked by you on a regular basis. Him having knowledge that at any given time you will check on his activity on pc & no unsupervised access. He has to wait until an adult can be in the room for entire session, before he uses it.

No friends over for a specified time, then when they are, not in bedrooms. Then if you relax that, no door closed etc.

Take away everything he has exploited & make him earn it back one by one.

Sorry abouteve it isn't it's 18. I work in sexual health and all my training from the head honchos says it's 18. Have just gone to the sexual offences act 2003 to double check and I think originally it was 16 then they made it 18 as they changed the legal definition of child.
www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2003/plain/ukpga_20030042_en_4#pt1-pb11-l1g45

I will try and find a better link that says it definitively.

www.cps.gov.uk/legal/h_to_k/indecent_photographs_of_children/

shows it is also "protection of children act" and "criminal justice act" as well as in Sexual offences bill. Am no lawyer but pretty sure it is 18.

Ok I didn't realise it was 18.