This is the Guardian. The internet is a challenging place for young people to navigate.

There's games, friendship, shopping, places to learn and be creative.

But it's also a total minefield.

There's bullying, addiction, misinformation,

and dangerous ideologies that can cause real life harm.

As the UK's online safety bill is being finalized,

a group of conservative peers have said that it needs tougher rules to target misogyny.

Something that increasing numbers of children are exposed to online through pornography and videos from influences like Andrew Tate.

Demasculization of men is a genuine plague we are suffering with in the West.

Banging out the machete, boom in her face, and grip her up by the neck.

So today on Science Weekly, we're taking a dive into this difficult topic.

We're asking, what makes young people vulnerable to this kind of

content and how does it affect their brains and behavior? From the Guardian I'm

Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.

Sally Wheel, you're the Guardian's education correspondent and recently you wrote about the report

by the Children's Commissioner for England looking at the rise in children watching pornography online. So for anyone who didn't hear

about this at the time, perhaps you could give me some of the headline findings of this report.

It was, as you say, a report by the Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel

DeSousa, who used to be a head teacher and has come across these, in schools for some years now and has kind of made

it a priority. So this report was all about pornography and I think everyone's known,

increasing, it's become increasingly clear that very young children even are looking at

pornography one of the findings was that I think one in ten children under the age of nine had seen porn. About a quarter of children in

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