Lynn Comella In The News

CBC
Porn is everywhere. It's on people's mobile phones, laptops, hard disks and it's all over the internet. There are now thousands of free clips just a click away, but despite the ubiquity, porn is an industry in upheaval.
Mashable
"The question is what appeal will these Spectacles have, if any, to this industry. Will they see these as a different kind of POV niche that it might be able to financially profit from or build a more general porn viewership," said Lynn Comella, associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "Will it be different from Google Glass?"
PolitiFact
Political attack ads typically stick to the same ol’ stuff, like voting records and candidate positions. That can’t be said for the jabs in Henderson, Nev., where voters in one state Assembly district are getting smacked with attacks on a pornographic level.
Refinery 29
A sex toy that links up with a smartphone app may be innovative, but the makers of popular app-enabled vibrator We-Vibe might have just stumbled upon a critical issue: One woman in Chicago is suing We-Vibe's manufacturer, Standard Innovation, for collecting and transmitting her information, including her email address and the vibration settings she used, without her consent.
K.N.P.R. News
Sex toy shops abound in Las Vegas. But you don't have to go to a specialty store anymore to buy some of these items. Vibrators are sold behind the counter at Walgreens, too.
Sacramento Bee
Positive HIV tests of adult film stars have repeatedly rattled the pornography industry in recent years, amplifying calls to better protect performers.
Huffington Post
One of the charges leveled against pornography, and there are a lot of them, is that it is fundamentally bad for women. Porn commodifies women's bodies, certain feminist rhetoric goes. It trains viewers to see women as nothing more than objects.
Huffington Post
Delany*, a 22-year-old college student, tells all of her female friends to get on Tumblr, not for the body-positive memes or feminist art projects, but for the porn.