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  • August
    2011

Does the name Dov Charney sound familiar? It should. Charney is the CEO and founder of American Apparel, and we have already written about two separate sexual harassment lawsuits that were filed against him in the past six months.

Several teenage women filed lawsuits against Charney for explicit, unwanted sexual advances and for forcing them to perform sex acts on him. But Charney clearly hasn't learned his lesson. He's now glorifying the same behavior that led to the earlier sexual harassment lawsuits in California.

His newest product is a t-shirt that says, "Teenagers do it better." As one news article reported, the t-shirt would probably not have garnered as much attention if it didn't so explicitly glorify teen sex immediately after two sexual harassment lawsuit from teenagers.

Charney has been accused of having inappropriate sexual relations with his high-school-aged employees. In March, one young woman filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Charney for making explicit sexual advances toward her and forcing her to perform oral sex acts on him.

In April, three women filed a lawsuit in the California court system claiming Charney posted nude pictures of them online. The women said they were forced to pose for the pictures for company photo shoots, and the photos were then released to large media sources without the women's permission.

Consistent with the majority of American Apparel's racy advertisements, the new shirts are modeled on under-dressed and explicitly-posed teenagers. One magazine showcased the shirts among hundreds of pictures of nude and semi-nude young boys.

Source: Mail online, "American Apparel CEO launches a 'Teenagers do it better' T-shirt hot on the heels of a string of sexual harassment claims," Daisy Dumas, Aug. 10, 2011