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Vorarephilia (often misspelled voreaphilia or voraphilia because of their similar pronunciation), also known as phagophilia or simply called vore for short, is a 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') -- also the root of the English word voracious -- and Ancient Greek φιλία (philia, 'love').

Terminology

The term vorarephile describes someone who enjoys vore. Most vorarephiles describe themselves as being "Prey" — reportedly based on how animals are considered to be prey for other animals who are in a higher chain position — while others, who actually do the eating in the fantasies, are referred to as a "Pred" (derived from the word predator).

Variants

Soft Vore

Soft vore describes scenarios where prey is consumed alive and whole, often without being harmed before reaching the stomach. Because of its non-violent nature, soft vore is commonly regarded as more sensual and sexually oriented. Prey in soft vore is either digested, suffocated or simply held in the stomach, whether willing or unwilling. Some vorarephiles who derive pleasure from watching animals eat other animals enjoy watching snakes eating, this is because they usually swallow their prey whole, a major element in soft vore.

Non-sexual soft vore is often used in a wide variety literature. These may be based on Native American folklore, such as one story in which Coyote enters the stomach of a giant to rescue a number of people who were eaten alive, or the biblical story of Jonah. Soft vore is also used in modern cartoons and anime (which includes "Eat or Be Eaten: Panic in the Forest," an episode of the anime series Naruto ). Most of these are seen as a harmless sight gag or a minor inconvenience for a character.

Hard Vore

Hard vore describes scenarios in which prey is subjected to injuries such as being ripped and chewed. This type of vore involves cutting, biting, tearing and usually blood. Although there is no inherent sexual characteristic to these portrayals, someone with a vore fetish could take them in a sexual context. Hard vore has sometimes been referred to as "gore" to separate it from soft vore.

Non-sexual hard vore is regularly portrayed in movies for mature audiences, such as the Jaws franchise and Deep Blue Sea.

Combinations

Being a fantasy, any orifice may be thought of as capable of vore, and described by simply adding the word 'vore' after the orifice in question. This incorrect use of the word vore is now commonplace. Examples of this well known twisting of the word vore are the "genital vore" scenarios, which includes unbirth. Unbirthing involves being consumed by the vagina and taking refuge in the woman's womb, which is simply a "reverse birth" and, in a pure sense, can only be done by a female. It is sometimes referred to as "Female Genital Vore" or "vaginal vore." Others think of it as a mutual, erotic and consensual activity with no injury to the sexual partners involved — in that case it is not considered a form of vore.

"Male Genital Vore," commonly called cock vore, refers to being consumed by the penis. This involves the urethral opening at the top of the penis, after which they are pulled down the urethra to the predator's scrotum, in which prey is absorbed, digested, or turned into semen (sometimes known as "cum vore") and ejaculated. A lesser known variant involves the prey to be taken to the prostate for conversion to semen, or to the bladder for storage or digestion.

Not well known, Anal vore describes being consumed by the anus. In common scenarios, prey consumed through anal vore is often drawn up through the digestive tract to the stomach where they are digested in a normal fashion. Such is not always the case, as the prey may simply remain in the rectum of the predator for a varying length of time. Breast vore describes prey being engulfed into the predator's breast through the nipples. Prey consumed is usually then held in the predator's breast where they are occasionally transformed into breast milk.

Related fetishes

Macro vore is quite common, which describes being consumed by a large or giant predator. Commonly called "giantess vore" (when the predator is a female), is commonly a mixture of macrophilia, a fetish for giants. In micro vore, on the other hand, is a combination of microphilia, in which the predator is smaller than its prey (this often involves magic). Scat is combined with vore as coprophilia, in which the prey has been digested (or pushed through the digestive system alive) and excreted out.

Maiesiophilia describes a love of the pregnant female form. It can take various forms, from having the shape of being pregnant while not having the pregnancy, or with a vore scenarios, looking pregnant while holding prey inside their stomach.

Motivations behind the vore paraphilia vary but endosomatophilia (attraction to fantasies involving complete encapsulation of a living thing within the body of another living thing) and dominance/submission play are two common driving forces. Allowing oneself to be literally devoured could arguably be called the ultimate act of submission on the prey's part, and the ultimate act of dominance by a predator. It is easy to draw a connection between vore and the 'snuff' fetish, but in reality the overlap is far from complete. Death is frequently sidestepped or avoided in stories and roleplaying, though for some it plays an integral role in their fantasies.

Vorarephilia and furry

Vorarephilia is a relatively popular topic for roleplay and art in the furry fandom as compared to the wider world, although it is still considered a fringe interest, shared to a greater or lesser extent by perhaps 2-5% of furry fans. Its popularity may be due to the large number of predator/prey species matchups that mingle daily, although some vorarephile characters will eat just about anything with no regard for the conventional food chain. Likewise, the mixed animal/human nature of the fandom allows bestial behavior like vore to emerge naturally alongside mutual grooming and other animalistic traits. Furry vore is also made somewhat easier to act out and depict by the fact that many furry characters do not wear clothes to begin with - and those that are doing the eating often have claws to handle the rest.

The general sequence of roleplay goes something like this:

Boy meets girl
(optional) Non-vore roleplay of various kinds
Girl declares that boy looks awfully tasty, either verbally or by nibbling on something
(optional) Boy tries to appease girl with gifts of alternate foods
Girl pounces upon boy
Boy puts up a token resistance but lacks the physical strength to escape
Girl swallows boy, either all at once, or (more commonly) over a series of poses in which boy bemoans his fate (if swallowed tail/feet first) or struggles (if swallowed head first)
(Optional) Boy is crushed into the (usually tight) confines of girl's stomach, and expires from digestion, typically falling unconscious first due to lack of oxygen

The above is just a rough guide of the most typical sequence of events - for example, each participant may be of either gender, or both, or none. Vore may not be fatal - such consumption is sometimes offered as a "warm place to stay the night". Even if digestion occurs, the consumed participant typically "respawns" or "reforms" within a few minutes to a few days. This neatly sidesteps the major disadvantage of real life vore (that you only get to do it once). The level of realism in a roleplay varies from player to player, ranging from absurd and cartoonish to anatomically correct and theoretically feasible.

Vore is in many cases - even in the role-play form - a consensual activity. For every player who decides he wants his fox to go down kicking and screaming as he is ruthlessly gobbled up, there are more who enter a chatroom with the comment "I'm feeling tasty tonight." Some wish to be hunted while others offer themselves up on a platter, and not always figuratively.

References

Adams, Cecil (2 July 2004) "Eat or be eaten: Is cannibalism a pathology as listed in the DSM-IV?" at The Straight Dope. Accessed 4 April 2007
Brathwaite, Brenda (August 30, 2006). "Defining Sex". Sex in Video Games. Charles River Media. pp. p. 20. ISBN 1584504595. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
^ Brundage, Sandy (July 31, 2002). "Fetish Confessions". The Wave Magazine. 2 (15). Retrieved 2007-04-30. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
"What is vore ? An attempt at a definition." Accessed 26 February 2008
"Soft Vore" Eka's Portal
"Hard Vore" Eka's Portal
"Vore fetishism: Why and how?"
^ "Unbirth" Eka's Portal
"Cock Vore" Eka's Portal
"Cock vore"
"Anal Vore" Eka's Portal
"Breast vore" Eka's Portal
^ The Vore Club

Euvoria

Euvoria is a series of vorish animations created by YouTube user Kphoria. The series revolves around cannibalistic and comical situtations starring either Kphoria's original characters (Euvoria Siren, Ashlie & Vivia, Uulonda The Witch, ect) and either requested or personally conceived pardosies of popular video game series (Super Mario, Kirby, Sonic The Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot. The word Euvoria itself is a compound word created by the combination of the words Euphoria and Vore and defined by the creator as "The pleasure of swallowing".