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New Twitter owner Elon Musk says addressing the problem of child-sexual-exploitation content on the social media platform is "Priority #1." Musk made the declaration in a tweet last Sunday night in response to a post about the issue. Eliza Bleu, an advocate for human trafficking survivors, says the three biggest hashtags for selling CSE on Twitter had been “virtually eliminated.” In a tweet Saturday, she also said that under Musk's just weeks-long ownership, Twitter's reporting system now includes an option to report such content, according to the news outlet ADN America. Twitter had been criticized for being slow to act...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sexual harassment and mistreatment of models have always been widely known and tolerated in the fashion industry, Christy Turlington Burns said. “The industry is surrounded by predators who thrive on the constant rejection and loneliness so many of us have experienced at some point in our careers. I feel fortunate that I did not personally experience anything traumatic, but also know that is not the norm,” she told Women’s Wear Daily in an interview published Wednesday.

A fashion-industry titan and top donor to President Bill Clinton met a woman on Match.com, lavishly wined and dined her before she agreed to have unprotected sex — and infected her with herpes, she claims in a new lawsuit. ... The date went well, as Simon regaled her with anecdotes about his relationship to the ex-president, she says. “He told me that he had just gotten back from a lunch with Clinton; he is a close personal friend with Bill Clinton,” she said, and records, in fact, show he shelled out at least $1 million to Clinton’s foundation. Simon, she...

London, October 25 (ANI): Michelle Obama has become the subject of a new book that hails her style and wardrobe for influencing the fashion pages. “Mrs O: The Face of Fashion Democracy”, published by Hachette, celebrates the US First Lady’s closet from the campaign trail to the White House. The tome glances at the mum-of-two’s designer dresses to affordable brands with more than 120 pictures, reports the Telegraph. It also features interviews from some of Michelle’s favourite designers, such as Isabel Toledo, Jason Wu, Michael Kors, Maria Pinto and Isaac Mizrahi. Mary Tomer, 28, who works in advertising for Bartle...

Clare Coulson thinks she has too many gay friends. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that they are blocking her path to romance. There are women who have gay friends and there are those that don't. I have more gay friends than I know what to do with. It all began when I worked on a glossy magazine where heterosexual men were as rare as split ends. The office was full of flamboyant, witty, entertaining gay men who quickly became close friends and allies. But six years on, for a girl working in the fashion industry, they...

One in five US adolescents has sex before turning 15TEENAGE LUST: Experts say that the report should be a wake-up call to parents and teachers that education needs to start earlier because kids are way ahead of themNY TIMES NEWS SERVICEWednesday, May 21, 2003,Page 7 About 20 percent of adolescents in the US have had sexual intercourse before their 15th birthday -- and one in seven of the sexually experienced 14-year-old girls has been pregnant, according to a new report released on Monday by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. The report, an analysis of seven studies conducted in...