Its a form of masochism, it took me a while to spot these signs and then understand that I do not need to involve myself in some one elses fetish.
Absolutely. But I also wonder if it's a sign of past abuse too. (I would imagine this kid's upbringing was not at all a welcoming, inclusive environment, in fact I'd put money on the parents, especially the father, being raging homophobes too).
There's a type of behaviour that I've heard both survivors of domestic violence and professionals in the field describe, whereby the only control a victim has over the attacks on them becomes one of timing - they can, for instance, stop walking on eggshells to try to get the violence out the way before the kids come home from school (someone very dear to me used to use this with her hideous ex). This then becomes a very ingrained, learned behaviour pattern where the person starts to act this way to a lot of people around them, and can come across (if you don't know where the behaviour's coming from) as deliberately provocative. )f course, that's not really what's going on, and with their abuser, the whole point is that no matter what they did there's no excuse for violence, and in any case there was no way the victim could have avoided the violence at any point, because the abuser was always going to abuse them, and it's wrong to read the surface behaviour this way and then lapse into some form of victim blaming - but it can be very hard work for those around them trying to support them.
When I see someone indulging in masochistic behaviour (for example starting a thread on relationships about "I'm the other woman, I wish you'd understand", where they must know they'll get a complete kicking and almost seem to want to be judged by all and sundry) I always wonder about the motivation.
(Unless of course the motivation is obviously "here for the screenshots.")