What is a “crush” video? A particularly nasty type of sexual perversion is viewing small animals, such as mice, kittens, puppies, and rabbits, be violently killed by being stepped on by a stiletto high heel. It seems unimaginable that someone would be sexually aroused by the horrific sights and sounds of an innocent young animal being tortured to death, but it is true. These sick perverts created a nice little market for some x-rated publishers, and our famed free-speech laws have long protected them.

Stiletto heels are not the only instrument of death these sick perverts seem to relish. Similar crush videos feature small animals being electrocuted, burned, suffocated, or stabbed to death. These videos are now all illegal.

The new law, the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010, signed by President Obama on Dec. 9, 2010, makes it illegal to produce, sell or distribute any crush videos. Both houses of Congress overwhelmingly supported the newly rewritten law, an earlier version of which was overturned by the Supreme Court in April 2010 over concerns of ambiguous language that could be interpreted to prosecute hunting sports.