A crush fetish is a fetish and a paraphilia in which sexual arousal is associated with observing objects being crushed or being crushed oneself. The crushed objects vary from inanimate items (e.g. food), to injurious and/or fatal crushing of invertebrates (e.g. insects, snails, worms, spiders), vertebrates (e.g. birds, reptiles, mammals), or humans.[1][2]