A Queens man has been charged with harassment after he took his ex-girlfriend’s Facebook hostage . He changed Jessica Zamora-Anderson’s password and sexual orientation, demanding several hundred dollars to pay towing and parking fees. “It’s destroyed my life,” she said. [ NYPost ]

A British study says ” lad mags ” with scantily clad women are responsible for sexualizing young people, and that the government should put age restrictions on their sale . But would such restrictions fix the problem? In a report to be officially released tomorrow, psychologist Dr. Linda Papadopoulos says the magazines — like Zoo and Nuts — cause “a drip, drip effect” in which a particular kind of sexuality seeps into kids’ lives at younger and younger ages. According to the Guardian , Papadopoulos writes, Look at porn stars, and look how an average girl now looks. It’s seeped into every day: fake breasts, fuck-me shoes … We are hypersexualising girls, telling them that their desirability relies on being desired. They want to please at any cost. And we are masculinising boys – many feel they…

A California doctor is claiming that his patient survived a gunshot to the chest thanks to her implants, which blocked the bullet. Dr. Ghavami hopes to convince implant companies to donate supplies to help fund Lydia Carranza’s reconstructive surgery. [ LATimes ]

A list of 2009’s top trending topics , as compiled by Mashable , isn’t nearly as embarrassing as it could be! [via BuzzFeed ]

Facebook is the self-control killer, as many of us already know. But will it end your relationship? Some UK-based law firms believe the popular social networking site plays an increasing role in petitions for divorce . Interestingly, it isn’t the oft-touted boogeyman of digital disconnection that is the source of all these failed relationships. Social networking technology has made it possible to keep in touch with more people, coordinate hook ups – and to leave little cookie crumbs trails to our bad behavior that are easily traceable. The Telegraph reports: Mark Keenan, Managing Director of Divorce-Online said: “I had heard from my staff that there were a lot of people saying they had found out things about their partners on Facebook and I decided to see how prevalent it was I was really surprised to see 20 per cent of all the petitions containing references to Facebook. …