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Vorarephilia (often shortened to vore) is a paraphilia characterized by the erotic desire to be consumed by, or to personally consume, another person or creature, or an erotic attraction to the process of eating in general practice. Soft vore fantasies are separated from sexual fantasies of cannibalism, also referred to as "hard vore", because the soft vore victim is normally swallowed alive and whole. The word vorarephilia is derived from the Latin vorare (to "swallow" or "devour"), and Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, "love").

Content

Usually, vorarephilic fantasies involve a consumer (usually referred to as predator or pred for short) ingesting one or multiple victims (sometimes called prey) in some way. Since vorarephilic fantasies cannot be acted out in reality, they are often expressed in stories or drawings as well as sexual roleplay.

Vore is most often enjoyed through pictures, stories, videos, and video games, and it can appear in mainstream media. Expressions can involve humans, animals, dragons, giant snakes, and other creatures, real or fictional. In some cases, vorarephilia may be described as a variation of macrophilia and may combine with other paraphilias. Apart from macrophilia, vore fantasies often have themes of BDSM, microphilia, pregnancy fetishism, anthropomorphized animals, and sexual cannibalism.

Although it would be easy to suspect, most vorarephiles are not overly interested in sadomasochism. Instead, many derive pleasure from the psychological implications of their fetish. Examples of these include the annihilation of personal identity, the human fear of predation and the inherent humiliation of being overpowered. This does not necessarily indicate suicidal tendencies, as the escapist nature of the fantasy can appeal to people who feel anxious, lonely, or otherwise overwhelmed by daily life. Being inside another being hides the “prey” character from the outside world and away from all other characters, except for their captor. Thus, amongst the elements of erotic humiliation, vore is often interpreted as an outlet for people to explore themes of closeness and intimacy. This primarily applies to “willing prey” scenarios, where prey characters derive sensual pleasure or emotional comfort from being consumed. However, as with the majority of paraphilias, personal preferences and explanations vary widely.

Variations

There are several variations to the fantasy, often changing the way in which the victim is ingested.

Typically when the victim is consumed orally, most artwork depicts what is known by vorarephiles as "soft vore", meaning that the victim is swallowed whole and enters the stomach of the consumer, then is either left unharmed, or digested inside. If the victim is kept safe (also known as endo vore or endosoma), the victim can eventually be let out by regurgitation or defecation, whereas if digestion happens, the victim is usually killed, but may be magically reformed in some cases. This is all left up to the preferences of the vore artist or their audience.

The more extreme and less common form of the fetish is "hard vore", in which the victim is chewed and torn apart by the consumer, followed by a more gruesome depiction of digestion.

The sizes of the consumer and/or victim can vary. Macro/micro vore is used to describe art in which the victim is much smaller than the consumer. Same-size vore, on the other hand, depicts a scenario where the victim and consumer are roughly the same size; the enlarged stomach of the consumer is described or depicted with great care.

Aside from typical oral vore, there are plenty of subcategories.

• Anal vore consists of the victim being ingested through the anus instead of the mouth.
• Unbirth is the ingestion of a victim through the vagina of the consumer, where it is often delivered to the uterus and may be transformed into discharge or regressed into a fetus, impregnating the consumer.
• Cock vore depicts the insertion of a victim into the penis of the consumer (which may be depicted as erect and excessively large) and delivered to the scrotum where it may be transformed into semen, or to the bladder and transformed into urine.
• Breast vore depicts the insertion of a victim into the breasts of the consumer, where it may be transformed into breast milk.

As there is room for artistic interpretation and niches, there are many other subcategories that may be less commonly seen, but they all more or less amount to a victim being inserted through a consumer's orifice in some way.

Research

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One case study analysis connected the fantasy with sexual masochism, and suggested that it could be motivated by a desire to merge with a more powerful other or permanently escape loneliness. With "no known treatment" for vorarephiles who feel ill at ease with their sexuality, psychologists at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have recommended trying to "adjust to, rather than change or suppress" the sexual interest. Medication for libido reduction could be used if deemed necessary.

See also

• Autassassinophilia, sexual arousal by the risk of being killed
• Emetophilia, sexual arousal from vomiting
• Foot fetishism
• Furry fandom, a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animals
• Giantess
• Human cannibalism
• List of paraphilias
• Ophidiophilia, attraction to snakes
• Sexual cannibalism, behaviour of (usually female) animals that eat their mates during or after copulation
• Sitophilia, sexual arousal by situations involving food

References

1. ^ Lykins, Amy D.; Cantor, James M. (21 September 2013). "Vorarephilia: A Case Study in Masochism and Erotic Consumption". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 43 (1): 181–186. doi:10.1007/s10508-013-0185-y. PMID 24057211. S2CID 21413433.
2. Ågmo, Anders (2007). "Hyperactive sexual desire and the paraphilias". Functional and dysfunctional sexual behavior: a synthesis of neuroscience and comparative psychology. Academic Press. p. 454. doi:10.1016/B978-012370590-7/50013-X. ISBN 978-0-12-370590-7.
3. Brundage, Sandy (31 July 2002). "Fetish Confessions". The Wave Magazine. 2 (15). Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
4. ^ "2021-Vore Survey Results : foxygrandpa : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
5. Brathwaite, Brenda (2007). "Defining sex". Sex in video games (PDF). Advances in computer graphics and game development. London: Charles River Media. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-58450-459-7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007.
6. Ceilán, Cynthia (2008). Weirdly Beloved: Tales of Strange Bedfellows, Odd Couplings, and Love Gone Bad. Globe Pequot. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-59921-403-0.
7. ^ "What are all types of vore?". Answers. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
8. Brean, Joseph (1 October 2013). "Man who desired to be eaten by a 'large, dominant woman' a baffling case for Toronto psychiatric hospital doctors". National Post.

External links

• The dictionary definition of vorarephilia at Wiktionary
• Media related to Vore at Wikimedia Commons

• Paraphilias
• Sexual fetishism