Lynn Comella In The News
City Cast Las Vegas
When Dr. Lynn Comella joined the faculty at UNLV, her office was in a space that had once been a bedroom. “It’s funny to think about that now,” she says. It was on the second floor of Houssels House, a fascinating campus anomaly. Amid the school’s toybox of large architectural showpieces, Houssels House was once, as its name makes clear, a residence — a 1933 Tudor revival located on Sixth Street near Charleston.
City Cast Las Vegas
Scholar Lynn Comella, who chairs UNLV’s department of interdisciplinary, gender, and ethnic studies, and who wrote the book “Vibrator Nation,” recently joined co-host Vogue Robinson on our podcast to discuss the state of sex shops in Sin City.
City Cast Las Vegas
Las Vegas is a city that sells sex… but when it comes to our sex shops, we’re actually kinda… basic. Today, co-host Vogue Robinson chats with UNLV professor Lynn Comella, author of the book “Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure,” about sex shops in Vegas: How they’re evolving, the challenges faced by the one feminist sex shop we had (ever so briefly), and what a great sex shop can do for a city like ours.
Daily Beast
Instagram’s recent Pornhub ban is the latest offensive in the platform’s all-out war against sex workers, who say their accounts are often targeted for deletion with very little explanation.
The Futures Archive
On the final episode of season 2 of The Futures Archive, Rachel Lehrer and Lee Moreau explore pleasure with a conversation about the vibrator and women's control over their bodies. With additional insights from Lynn Comella, Ti Chang, Jenny Winfield, and Mireille Miller-Young.
Future of Sex
In 2018, Facebook removed a photo of the Venus of Willendorf after it deemed the 25,000-year-old figurine pornographic
Los Angeles Times
Liz Flynt doesn’t mind being called a pornographer.
SWI swissinfo.ch
Leave the lyric to dedicate himself to porn? It is the bet of an Austrian mezzo-soprano who left the solemn world of opera to produce sex films with an ethical and feminist background.