Crush fetish

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A crush fetish is a fetish in which one is sexually aroused usually when someone crushes objects, food and sometimes small animals or insects with their body, usually under their foot., or when crushed oneself.[1] The term soft crush refers to the more common fetish surrounding videos involving inanimate objects (such as food) or small invertebrates (e.g. insects, snails, worms, arachnids) being crushed, while the term hard crush refers to such videos involving larger animals with vertabrae (e.g. reptiles, birds, mammals). The preference could be barefoot, high-heels, flip flops, and so on, depending on the fetishist.

Crush fetishes typically form between childhood and adolescence. There are currently various theories proposing psychological explanations for the origin of Crush Fetishes, but these are not yet consistent or based on empiric evidence. Some focus on the idea of re-living childhood, others focus on the belief that the subject has a fascination with death from early childhood/adolescence or the idea of a child in awe of the power of adults, and others attempt to link it to the Oedipus complex.

Crush films

Main article: Crush film

Jeff Vilencia is one known director of crush films, such as Smush![2] Vilencia, along with many other fetishists, has loved to see invertebrates crushed since a young age; he claims that when he was 2–3 years old, he repeatedly attempted to get people to step on him.[3] The legality of crush erotica and the actual practice of crushing varies by region; however, many have been posted on web sites and are available for download via the Internet, making the control of their distribution difficult.

United States

In 1999, the United States Congress enacted a statute affecting the legality of crush films which criminalized the creation, sale, or possession with the intent to sell of depictions of animal cruelty, though with an exception for "any depiction that has serious religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value."[4] In 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit invalidated the ban on the sale and possession of such films (if not otherwise obscene) as a violation of the Constitution's guarantee for freedom of speech.[5] The United States Supreme Court affirmed the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Stevens, finding the law unconstitutional because the law was so broad and vague that it included any portrayal of an animal in or being harmed such as by hunting or disease.[6] As of November 28, 2010, bill H.R. 5566, which prohibits interstate commerce in animal crush films, has been passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. On December 9, President Obama signed the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010 into law to re-criminalize the creation, sale, distribution, advertising, marketing and exchange of animal crush videos.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ G.A. Pearson. (1997). Digest Cultural Entomology. Fourth issue. Crush Fetishists
  2. ↑ IMDB. Smush. (accessed 2006-05-04)
  3. ↑ Lex Appeal Animal Cruelty, Crush Videos and the First Amendment.
  4. ↑ § 48. Depiction of animal cruelty. United States Code: Title 18, Part I, Chapter 3, § 48. Cornell University Law School
  5. ↑ United States v. Stevens - Protecting Animals no Justification for First Amendment Amputation, The Legal Satyricon, 20-07-2008
  6. ↑ Adam Liptak (April 20, 2010), Justices Reject Ban on Videos of Animal Cruelty, New York Times 
  7. ↑

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