Four years on & still no law

He suspected this might be the same group identified with the graphic Wang Jue video where she killed a cat with her high heels. He decided to join up and find out what was going on.

This shocking crush video has been deleted from websites mop.com and 56.com after a protest from the Animals Asia Foundation.

"I was asked what was my hobby, so I said 'same as yours,' then they let me in," he said. He used the same method to access the other seven QQ groups.

According to Peacock King, these groups ran websites like fetishcn.info and alifootclub.com, both now defunct due to media exposure.

These websites used to be available two to three hours a night, selling crush films and VIP memberships while barring animal rights activists from peeking.

He pretended to be a buyer and chatted with sellers. They gave him a menu of "products." Prices varied depending on the way they performed and the length of the videos.

He paid about 300 yuan to buy a 15-minute video in which a young woman squashed baby mice under her golden high heels. They also gave him other short crush clips for free and introduced some foreign crush fetishist websites as an extra service.

"I later found out they copied the performance from foreign crush fetishists' websites as Asian people rarely make such films," he said.

"It's not only murdering and torturing animals, it's an extension of S&M [sadomasochism]."

Such clips are sold to crush fetish websites such as xxxfetish-media.com and nicheclips.com where sexy women crush insects and shellfish in online videos retailing for $6-10, he explained.

Once a paid-up member, Peacock King guesses a catalog is made available that includes cruelty toward other kinds of animals.

"The reason why you can't see girl-killing-small animal videos on their website is because animal cruelty is illegal in their home countries," he said.

Girls who perform crushing are called "queens" and are popular and worshiped by crush fetishists, according to the chat record provided by Peacock King.

"Queen, I love your feet and your high heels," one fan commented. "They are the combination of beauty and cruelty. It's so beautiful to watch it dying under your feet."