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Vorarephilia (often misspelled voreaphilia or voraphilia, or shortened to vore) is a sexual fetish and paraphilia where arousal occurs from the idea of being eaten, eating another, or watching this process. The fantasy may include digestion.

The word vorarephilia is derived from the Latin vorare (to 'swallow' or 'devour') and Ancient Greek φιλία (philia, 'love'), while phagophilia comes from φάγειν (phagein, to 'chew' or 'gnaw').

The term for images displaying acts of Vorarephilia or literature/roleplaying written about this is Vore. There are two main types of this: Soft Vore and Hard Vore, which are frequently shorted to SV and HV respectively. Soft Vore involves acts in which the party or parties being devoured are swallowed whole, while Hard Vore depicts prey being eaten by having bites taken out of their body or being eviscerated. Many Vorarephiles have a preference for one particular type, and may not be excited by the other type at all. Regardless of how the parties are consumed, digestion may or may not play as an element, and can sometimes tie in with Sitophilia or Emetophilia.

References

1. Adams, Cecil (2004-07-02). "Eat or be eaten: Is cannibalism a pathology as listed in the DSM-IV?". The Straight Dope. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
2. Brathwaite, Brenda (2006-08-30). Sex in Video Games. Charles River Media. p. 20. ISBN 1584504595. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |chapterurl= (help) "Defining sex" (PDF). Archived from the original (pdf) on 2007-09-27.
3. ^ Brundage, Sandy (2002-07-31). "Fetish Confessions". The Wave Magazine. 2 (15). Retrieved 2007-04-30.

Further reading

• Giard, A (2004). Le sexe bizarre: Pratiques érotiques d'aujourd'hui. ISBN 2749102863.

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