Community | August 16, 2010 | 99 comments

Help ban crush videos in the US

Crush videos, among other “fetish videos,” feature small live animals, such as kittens, puppies, mice and bunnies, being slowly tortured in the most horrific ways imaginable; including being burnt alive, cut with pruning sheers, nailed to the floor, skinned alive, beaten, stabbed, and having their limbs broken.

All of these videos share a common theme: the animals are incrementally crushed by a woman in high heels. Most people view these materials for “sexual gratification”, but these videos are becoming increasingly popular just for their shock value alone. The crush fetish can be also linked to “paraphernalia,” which is an atypical sexual arousal to nonhuman objects and humans alike being caused physical distress.

Crush videos are becoming increasingly popular across America, and will escalate to epidemic proportions due to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to legalize them.
It’s not hard to find such sites on the Internet with any search engine-keep in mind it’s now perfectly legal to download and watch. Minors can access these materials with a click of a button. If The Supreme Court says, “Okay fine, It’s free speech,” please first examine the damage it causes both human and nonhuman lives, and society as a whole.

Freedom of speech has its limits when it places a society in danger, such as the ban on child pornography as it leads to violence of children. Films that exploit, torture, and kill animals for entertainment purposes also puts society in danger, for it is destructive by inciting violent and antisocial behavior, thereby endangering our citizens. Adults showing their own children these videos can cause emotional damage and lead to Antisocial Personality Disorders. This is not only considered child abuse, but is one of the leading disorders found in serial killers. While there are many factors that contribute to someone becoming a serial killer, the one constant they share is animal abuse.

In short, there is nothing socially redeeming about “crush videos” and animal torture videos when used for entertainment and financial purposes. However, relating to educational or for political and sociological purposes, this should be the exception – such as speaking against, or educating the public about the realities of dog fighting or other issues and how it affects a society, such as the making of a violent criminal or serial killer.

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99 comments // Help ban crush videos in the US

  • ploomis
    • 0
      ploomis  
    • I feel that humane killing of animals is only justified for 3 reasons:

      1 - for the food and other resources that can be efficiently used.

      2 - to prevent imminent attack on a human
      (unless the human provoked the animal into attacking)

      3 - to stop the animal's suffering and prevent the spread of disease.

      Any other reason is against nature.

    • 1 year ago
  • ploomis
    • +1
      ploomis  
    • People, call me friggin crazy for this but I must ask: How in the hell did everyone go from "crush videos" to this huge abortion debate and then to what wild small game is good to eat.

      Are there any sociologists in here can give a rundown. Is it meth?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • ploomis:

      yes, it is the meth, goes well with wild venison plus keeps a woman at ease while her baby is bein ripped in shreads and vacuumed from her body. bon apetite!

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -4
      congoboy  
    • what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
    • +1
      UtopianSky  
    • congoboy:

      Of course it's fucked up logic- it's your logic.

      Conservatives are the ones who want to protect a clump of cells, so it can grow up without any education or health care because it's parents were too poor to afford any, into a full-grown man that you can send to fight in wars to keep the oil companies wealthy, or get the death penalty in prison for the crime of being black.

      The rest of us believe the woman has the right to choose. Believing in a woman's right to choose does NOT mean believing that abortion is a good idea.

      Again, that's the difference between liberals and conservatives;
      liberals respect everyone's rights, while conservatives want to force everyone to live by their rules.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -2
      congoboy  
    • UtopianSky:

      uhhh, you are wrong o little one with shit for brains. apparently you havent been watching your basic rights dwindling away under the obummer regime. open your eyes its the dems in power that keep infringing upon americans freedoms. always trying to censor, limit, control everything we say and do. i will pray that you someday see the wicked ways of your leadership and your president. and even though i didnt vote for him, once he was in power i did have hopes that he would do the right thing but my hopes were quickly dashed by the reality that i saw coming two years before the election. its too bad obummer's such a fuck up and a worthless leader. he more than likely has taken away the chance of a legitimate minority politician to ever have such a golden opportunity in america again

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
    • +1
      UtopianSky  
    • congoboy:

      ... and there we have the foaming-at-the-mouth tinfoil hat rant.

      First off, oh uneducated one, I was discussing liberals vs conservatives- political ideologies- not Republicans vs Democrats, political parties.

      Realities ALWAYS fall short of ideals.

      And, as usual, the worst anyone can say about the Obama administration is that they are a bunch of politicians.

      You must of JUST opened your eyes when Obama became president, and had them locked shut during every other administration, but while Obama HAS done some wrong things, NONE of them are unique or extreme compared to other administrations. Heck, the WORST things he has done are continuations of the Bush regime.

      ALL politicians are scum, every one of them- but Obama is a HELL of a lot better than the alternatives.

      Over and over, morons like you sit and cry that Obama is not an Angel sent from heaven, when only FOX News addicts ever thought he was.

      The rest of us know he's a human being, and a politician, and the best damn president we have had in the past 50 years.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -2
      congoboy  
    • UtopianSky:

      uhhuh yup mmhm best ever yes yup, human really, sub human mmhm yup conservative liberal republican democrat same thing yup yes sir mmhm uhhuh never seen anything like it yup. 30% agree mmhm obama forever yup

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
  • Kurta
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      Kurta  
    • congoboy:

      Didn't I respond to this exact post below? What? Do you just have a list of clever (or not so clever) jabs at Dems saved in your notepad for such an occasion?

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
    • 0
      UtopianSky  
    • Wait a minute-

      In mainstream "normal" movies with animals in them, they always have a disclaimer at the end of the film "no animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture."

      I assumed that was required by law.

      Does this mean in regular movies they are ALLOWED to kill animals?

      The cowboy can shoot a horse?
      The captain can spear a shark?
      The ex-girlfriend can boil a bunny?
      Those glass blades can fall from the ceiling and chop a horse into layers?
      (I don't remember what move that was, but it was a dream sequence)

      If mainstream films can't harm animals, then why can independent films?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • fun_size
  • congoboy
  • SuperGayJesus
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • SuperGayJesus:

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      congoboy

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      congoboy
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      what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • SuperGayJesus
  • congoboy
  • ReverandG
    • +1
      ReverandG  
    • I knew and old woman that would stop on the road side frequently and save kittens thrown out into traffic in paper bags.
      Anyone that makes a video like this is disturbed.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ayahuasca2012
  • congoboy
    • -2
      congoboy  
    • Ayahuasca2012:

      *

      what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • Chango2000
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      Chango2000  
    • who the hell decided to stomp on a kitten's head with high heels to see if they would be aroused? ive never heard of or seen any of these videos but i don't know why this issue is even up for debate, ban it.

    • 1 year ago
  • flyingkick
  • littlwarrior
    • -1
      littlwarrior  
    • Dude this is f'd in the head. really just gross and weird and gross. People who watch this shit need help, like strap them down and sedate them kind of help. Ban this, ill sign a petition, I go to the court house, whatever this one shouldnt be hard to get on the books.

    • 1 year ago
  • Radical_Centrist
    • +3
      Radical_Centrist  
    • Animal torture is outlawed in every state that I am aware of. This is where this issue BELONGS at the state level. I believe people who torture animals belong in jail. This is one of the MAJOR precursors to becoming a serial killer. That of course does not mean we need another FEDERAL law.

      I would ad there should be a clear exception for hunting Videos. I mean there is a BIG difference between an instructional video that teaches you how to kill and clean a Deer for consumption, and one where they break a Gerbils spine and then shove it up their @$$.

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • Radical_Centrist:

      what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • Radical_Centrist
  • congoboy
  • Radical_Centrist
  • JanforGore
    • +7
      JanforGore  
    • "A friend of mine just started his own business, manufacturing landmines that look like prayer mats. Apparently Prophets are going through the roof."

      Didn't you just type this in another thread? Were you kidding? It would seem your concern doesn't carry over to certain human beings. Though this is certainly heinous. Just doesn't follow that you would be so concerned about this and yet want to blow people up. So color me skeptical about signing a petition you post here. I will find another way to support the end of this behavior. There must be a credible organization out here somewhere. No?

    • 1 year ago
  • crystalman
    • -2
      crystalman  
    • JanforGore:

      When did you lose your sense of humour? I have an aversion to anyone who takes themselves too seriously...sacrificing their humanity on the altar of pompous self important humourlessness and ideological fanaticism. This dourness is one of the characteristics of fascist totalitarians.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • JanforGore
  • crystalman
  • bailey78
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • JanforGore:

      what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • ArchDruid
  • s_peak
    • 0
      s_peak  
    • ArchDruid:

      Minds that would torture animals for a sexual fetish... (or for comedy for that matter) should be subjected to those same tortures and then ground up into meat and served to the poor. That's sick and twisted. Our minds aren't supposed to function in that manner. I say wrap them in chum and throw them to the great whites.

      Sickening indeed.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • s_peak:

      what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • crystalman
  • congoboy
  • bailey78
  • Kurta
    • +3
      Kurta  
    • I call bullshit on free speech regarding this. The videos are simply sensationizing a crime. They should treat the videos in the same way they deal with child porn.

      Honestly, if there are that many people that get turned on by watching this shit, I think it's time for our extinction. The fact that humans have reached this low in sexuality supports that idea.

    • 1 year ago
  • JStation
  • LinXitoW
    • +1
      LinXitoW  
    • Kurta:

      If i got it right the court is saying that the law could've also made documentaries about hunting or maybe slaughterhouses illegal, if they depict animal cruelty. If that is the case, they do have a point there.

      That being said, i want to make it abundantly clear that I too strongly object to this, well, crap and do hope they come up with a good law in the very near future.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -2
      congoboy  
    • Kurta:

      what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • Kurta
    • 0
      Kurta  
    • congoboy:

      Hmm, that's interesting. I don't recall revealing my political affiliation nor my stance on abortion in my post. I have to choose between animals and people? I can't respect both or not respect either? It's one or the other? THAT"S "some fucked up logic".

    • 1 year ago
  • Mariased
  • bailey78
    • 0
      bailey78  
    • I could see doing some of those things to a child molester or a rapist. But a poor helpless critter thats just uncalled for.

    • 1 year ago
  • galwayman
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      galwayman  
    • Didn't know about this! This is sick, so totally sick, it defies any rational attempt to respond. Any one who'd do this to a little innocent animal ,should have it done to them!

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • galwayman:

      what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • +3
      freecrack  
    • i wish it were possible, but as long as we have network television dedicated to the "art" of hunting, we accept the exploitation of life.compasion is lost.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • +1
      congoboy  
    • freecrack:

      hunting is an art, and wild game quite tasty. every fall my freezers stocked full of yummy wild morsels. now as far as the cruelty to small domestic animals and pets to satisfy some sick sexual perversion, thats another sadistic story

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • +2
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      revolting as expected.not that you eat what you kill, that is natural.but the arrogance you adopt in presenting a basis of existance as an art.
      farming is an art, hunting is killing.the lions on the discovery channel arent the picaso's of another species.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • 0
      congoboy  
    • freecrack:

      i dont hunt for sport but for meat. besides lion is a cat and they have stinky meat. its not killing no more than your local butcher. man against nature, stalking his prey, slowly, taking aim, holds breath, and blammo! dinners on..yum yum!

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • Incredulous
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • bailey78
  • LinXitoW
    • +1
      LinXitoW  
    • congoboy:

      I don't see the financial benefit in buying expensive hunting gear just to get food onto the table. I do think you do it for the process of killing as a sport/hobby since you take pleasure in the stalking and the preperation. I personally object hunting, although i don't see any real logical basis for that rejection.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • LinXitoW:

      hunting gears not that expensive, especially when you buy it illegally. but generally i like lying in wait then leap out and take em down with a big knife. its more challenging and a bit more fair thata way

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
    • 0
      littlwarrior  
    • congoboy:

      oooo i cant wait for hunting season. Puttin in for a moose tag this year, if i get it it will be the first year i get to hunt moose and I am stoked. MMM now I want deer steak, think thats what I will have for dinner tonight.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
    • +2
      littlwarrior  
    • Einsam_Data_Old:

      Actually hunting is nescceassry, humans have driven out most of the natural preditors of deer elk ect and if there is nothing to control the population you would be amazed how quickly the deer take over, they breed faster than the anti hunting folk would like you to beleive.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • congoboy
  • ReverandG
    • 0
      ReverandG  
    • congoboy:

      Where I live now there are so many white tail deer they are like tall rats. The cities have to have hunters come in to thin them out. Personally I prefer Mule Deer or Elk. Wrap a bit of bacon around it and slow cook it for an hour..yummy.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
  • littlwarrior
  • bailey78
    • 0
      bailey78  
    • littlwarrior:

      Yea I like the fact that you can go with just a hand full of decoys and a shotgun an a bucket to sit on. Here in South Texas We have some of the best Duck Hunting in the world. You can pond hop or sit in the grass by the by the bay an get your limit in an hour or so on a good day. A couple of hours on a slow day. I used to guide at the oldest hunting lodge in the state. A quaint little place called Port Bay Hunting an Fishing Club it's the oldest Hunting Club in the State of Texas it was Est. in 1912. great place to be when it's Duck Season.

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • congoboy
  • bailey78
    • 0
      bailey78  
    • congoboy:

      Why do you need an assault rifle to hunt little furries? Those are Weapons of war they are to kill humans with not to hunt. That makes no sence. I think you may be delusional .

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • bailey78
    • 0
      bailey78  
    • congoboy:

      Oh yea I used to see flocks like that down here thirty or so years ago. We have a five Duck limit now days. Hell We were on the point system for a long time. That sucked big time.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • freecrack:

      what i find interesting and with amusement is how you libs are supportive of cutting a living human infant from a womans womb, sucked out with a vacuum only to be tossed into the trash. but when it comes to dumb animals it all like, "what can we do to save them?" thats some fucked up logic

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • bailey78:

      yeah its pretty awesome to see flocks that large. duck is some good eating but its been a while since ive had any. plenty of quail, doves and phesant around here though.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      funny you mention that cuz i just realized not to long ago that both sides of the aisle on this element of thier respective idealogies are contradictory.
      while the right is pro-gun, the gun is designed to serve one purpose and one purpose alone to kill.unlike other lethal weapons a gun has no other purpose.the right fights actively to insure this method of murder is as accesable as possible, but want to make abortion against the law on the basis that is it the very murder they with guns advocate as a constitutional right.
      the left has the same thing but in its converse, in condeming guns as they kill. making thier premise life is too valuable to be put in each others hands.they condone choosing to take a life using different means wich is contradictory.
      both sides are either manipulated to the point of irrationality, or our parties arent flawed, our ability to reason is.

      you claim to be jewish congo, what do you do if you impregnate your wife and it turns our you both have the tay sachs gene?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • -1
      congoboy  
    • freecrack:

      love, care, pray and let god do his will, just like palin did. im not advocating making abortions illegal. its between the party's involved and god. but i personally dont believe in this wicked process unless it is to save the life of the mother.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • 0
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      love care pray and let god do his will is a spiritual methodology.being as we have a blueprint for making policy in the constitution, and that document doesnt recognize prayer and faith in god as means by wich we can successfully function, it has no place in political debate.they are great ideas for existential thought and discourse, but not political arenas, as they do not meet our governmental (constitutional) requirements.

      so if you have a kid with tay sachs, what you are saying is abortion isnt an option?

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
    • 0
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      ya know thier is no knowledge police, you can admit that you havent a clue what tay sachs is.no one is going to send you to bed early.
      ill keep playing along but it is starting to get silly.

      playing along:so if you were told your child had tay sachs you would prefer a lifetime of suffering over a mercy killing.

      ill keep vaguely, slowly making the point, or you could just be a grown up about it

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
    • 0
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      so because you think this is part of gods plan, you want to have a child that will develope only until the age of 3 or 4 then regress slowly and painfully to death over a maximum period of 7 years.you some how think god wants you to go through the suffering of having the child, and the inoccent childs decade long suffering.
      the end result is fatal, it is just a matter of having mercy or not.stop it before it starts, or be complicet in the suffering of an inoccent child.

      when in your mind does conception begin by the way.cuz unless you have decided to go the way of the catholic church, it isnt in the first trimester.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
    • +1
      congoboy  
    • freecrack:

      youre a jew, you should know suffering. and to put it in your perspective, god not wanting us to suffer. thats a selfish self centered way to look at raising any child. so i suppose god himself told you that in the first trimester a baby is a lifeless blob of tissue? my wife being a high risk pregnancy patient had to be closely monitored with ultrasound with all 7 of our children and after viewing multiple ultra sounds during every stage of her pregnancies i can tell you from my own first hand experience that there is life, awareness, and consciousness in the first trimester. so take your junk biological science and stuff it way up your ass.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      im a human being first before jew, and only know the suffering as intimately as i have experienced it, or can empathise with others.being jewish has nothing to do with understanding suffering.it would be neat if that were the case but it isnt.

      i would take my biological science stuff and stick it up my ass but its success rate is so exccedingly good to do so would be an abandonment of inteligence.
      im sure it was a great consolation to our ancestors to believe the bible or torah as it were, was perfect.but as it turns out science has trumped it.the earth isnt flat despite the bible saying so, and millions being killed for agruing it as heretics.the earth revolves around the sun, despite the bible claiming otherwise and galaleo is no less dead for knowing this.

      the very same scientific method used that detrmined that the moment of conception, isnt the moment life begins, is the same one that created all the vaccines we give our kids.the same process that has us living longer than ever before (unless you think abraham did actualy make it 174 yrs old).

      i agree to be duplicitous is counterproductive, so if science isnt the way to go for you, turn off your computer, throw away your cell phone, smash the tv, trade your car in for a horse and buggy, and dont use ultra sounds.live by your convictions.dont submit to the biological science nonsense that hospitals rely upon, dont go, just like the amish and the christian scientists.

      until then every day in action, you are not only supporting but validating the very science you decry with every character you type, every cell phone call you make, and every ultrasound you went to.

      if life begins at conception, why does it take nine months to give birth?
      if life begins at conception, abortion is actualy a natural process, as the female body can, and does discard fertalized eggs in the menstrual process.
      further more if a fertalized egg is life, and it is menstruated why arent thier scores of ferral babies out there?

      the point i was driving at was a tay sachs victim is dead no matter wether you have an abortion or not.the question is what do we do with that knowledge.you may be ok with finding reasons to validate prolonging the event, and insuring suffering, but as a human being i dont.

      bind me and torture me to death over a decade, or just put two in the back of my head, i will choose the latter any day.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      no, selfish would be to create a child that will die after suffering emense pain for your believes over what is humane.have a child that suffers and dies, or just dies, either way it goes down, that child does not survive, selfish would be to force it to live.
      the purpose of bearing a child is reproduction no? why value the act over its outcome.
      each time you attempt in the case of tay sachs is a faliure, why add extensive pain and suffering to it?
      bet its a selfish reason that actualy doesnt take in to account the life it slowly destroys.

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  
    • congoboy:

      wow your belief system is muslum now, god is in total control.the fact that you put your dick in your wife was gods doing.god must really like teenagers to be pregnant.
      ya know when muslum fisherman have a bad day they say allah didnt give them fish today.they dont notice that a net catches more than a rod and reel.they dont notice the spawning seasons.the dont notice trollers catch more thn nets.they throw in thier line and just figure if god wants them to have 500 fish, 500 fish will bite, as opposed to using nets.
      we have the will and knowledge to effect our lives im infinate ways.god gave us free will allowing for judgement to guide us.
      we know how babies are made, making procreation a judgement call, not gods creation.he may have created the circumstances, but you make the child, just as adding chocolate syrup to milk isnt a divine creation but mine.

    • 1 year ago
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