What if the children's greatest danger is in their own room?

One Uber driver left me shaking with his account: "I took a passenger who kept sighing. Ever since he gave a cell phone to his 12-year-old daughter, his relationship with her became complicated. One afternoon he went to knock on his daughter's door; on the other side he heard music, but no answer. He knocked louder, several times, nervousness devoured him and he forced the door. No one was there. The music came from the notebook. Bewildered, the father approached the screen and saw that the tab for Instagram. He sat down to look at the direct messages. A guy had been chatting with her daughter for several months. He was fawning over her, sending her pictures and asking for others. Erotic ones. At the end of the conversation, that guy was inviting her to a secret rendezvous at his house. There was the address, and the acceptance of her little girl, sent about an hour ago. That father got up in a sweat and rushed out to look for her. Thank God, he got her back..

What strange paradoxes have we gotten ourselves into? Parents worry about their children eating vegetables and not getting cold at night, or take out powerful health insurance in case they catch pneumonia. But as soon as the child enters his room, he is abandoned in the far westThe weather, the exposure to the worst predators of our species.

Is anyone fighting this? Laila Mickelwait is an American activist who has been fighting the pornography industry for decades. With more than two million followers, she is demanding the shutdown of Pornhub The reason? That platform hosts and monetizes revenge porn, spy cameras, female submission.

In recent years, Mickelwait has made significant achievements. He tells the story, in an exciting way, in the book Take Down. Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape and Sex Trafficking. (Penguin Random House, 2024). By the end of 2020, he got Pornhub to remove 80 % from its unverified content. Two years later, Visa, Mastercard and Discover suspended their payment services. online for both subscriptions and advertising transactions. Laila is now assisting with several civil and criminal lawsuits against Aylo"(the most important controlling company in the industry). His argument is devastating: pornography is not "adult entertainment"but a "crime scene".

What a desire to give our children back their childhood: let them get dirtier and risk hurting their knees. In return, we will not leave them alone in front of the screens.