Penthouse (magazine)

==National rampage protests==
In December 1984, a group of [[radical feminists]] began a civil disobedience campaign against ''Penthouse'' which they called a National Rampage. Led by [[Melissa Farley]] and [[Nikki Craft]], they went into stores selling copies of the magazine and ripped them up, and they also burned an effigy of [[Bob Guccione]] in front of a bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin. In late 1985 the group began to focus on the printer of ''Penthouse'', [[Meredith Corporation]]. They bought shares in the company and attended their annual stockholder's meeting. The women were not allowed to speak, but they removed their coats, revealing images from a ''Penthouse'' shoot about [[japanese bondage|Japanese rope bondage]]&mdash;among which two poses were construed by Farley to evoke dead bodies&mdash;ironed onto [their] shirts.<ref name=Rampage>{{Citation | last = Farley | first = Melissa | author-link = Melissa Farley | contribution = Nikki Craft: Inspiring protest: The rampage against ''Penthouse'' | editor-last1 = Russell | editor-first1 = Diana E.H. | editor-last2 = Radford | editor-first2 = Jill | editor-link1 = Diana E. H. Russell | title = Femicide: the politics of woman killing | pages = 339–345 | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = New York Toronto | date = 1992 | isbn = 9780805790283 | postscript = .}} [http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Porn/rampage1femicide1991.pdf Pdf.]</ref>