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'''Vorarephilia''' (often shortened to '''vore''') is a ] 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.<ref name="Lykins" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Ågmo |first=Anders |chapter=Hyperactive sexual desire and the paraphilias |url=https://archive.org/details/functionaldysfun0000agmo |title=Functional and dysfunctional sexual behavior: a synthesis of neuroscience and comparative psychology |publisher=Academic Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-12-370590-7 |page=454 |doi=10.1016/B978-012370590-7/50013-X |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Brundage2002">{{cite journal |last=Brundage |first=Sandy |date=31 July 2002 |title=Fetish Confessions |url=http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?articleid=22026&pagename=article |url-status=live |journal=The Wave Magazine |volume=2 |issue=15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927061721/http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?articleid=22026&pagename=article <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=27 September 2007 |access-date=30 April 2007}}</ref> Soft vore fantasies are separated from sexual fantasies of ], also referred to as "hard vore",<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last= |date=2021-07-25 |title=2021 Vore Survey Results from Eka's Portal |url=https://ia600505.us.archive.org/28/items/2021-vore-survey-results/Eka%27s%20Portal%20Vore%20Survey%20Results.pdf |access-date=4 September 2023 |website=Internet Archive |language=en |publication-date=2023-09-04}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (]).|date=November 2024}} because the soft vore victim is normally swallowed alive and whole.<ref name="Lykins" /> The word ''vorarephilia'' is derived from the ] ''{{Lang|la|vorare}}'' (to "swallow" or "devour"), and ] {{Lang|grc|φιλία|italic=no}} (''{{Lang|grc-latn|philía}}'', "]").
'''Vorarephilia''' (often misspelled ''voreaphilia'' or ''voraphilia'' because of their similar pronunciation), also known as '''phagophilia''' or simply called '''vore'''<ref name="straightDope">] (] ]) "" at ]. Accessed ] ]</ref> for short, is a ] and ] where arousal occurs from the idea of being eaten, eating another, or watching this process.<ref name="brathwaite">{{cite book |title= Sex in Video Games |first= Brenda |last= Brathwaite |publisher= Charles River Media |pages= ''p''. 20 |chapterurl= http://www.charlesriver.com/resrcs/chapters/1584504595_1stChap.pdf |isbn= 1584504595 |chapter= Defining Sex |date=August 30, 2006}}</ref><ref name="Brundage2002">{{cite journal |last= Brundage |first= Sandy |journal= The Wave Magazine |volume= 2 |issue= 15 |title= Fetish Confessions |date= ], ] |url= http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?articleid=22026&pagename=article |accessdate= 2007-04-30}}</ref> The fantasy may include digestion.<ref name="Brundage2002" /> The word ''vorarephilia'' is derived from the ] ''vorare'' (to ']' or 'devour') -- also the root of the English word ''voracious'' -- and ] φιλία (''philia'', ']').


⚫ == 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 ].<ref name="Lykins">{{cite journal|last1=Lykins|first1=Amy D.|last2=Cantor|first2=James M.|title=Vorarephilia: A Case Study in Masochism and Erotic Consumption|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|date=21 September 2013|volume=43|issue=1|pages=181–186|doi=10.1007/s10508-013-0185-y|pmid=24057211|s2cid=21413433}}</ref>


Vore is most often enjoyed through pictures, stories, videos, and ], and it can appear in mainstream media.<ref name="brathwaite">{{cite book |last=Brathwaite |first=Brenda |url=http://www.charlesriver.com/resrcs/chapters/1584504595_1stChap.pdf |title=Sex in video games |publisher=Charles River Media |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-58450-459-7 |series=Advances in computer graphics and game development |place=London |page=20 |chapter=Defining sex |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927180711/http://www.charlesriver.com/resrcs/chapters/1584504595_1stChap.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref> Expressions can involve humans, animals, dragons, giant snakes, and other creatures, real or fictional.<ref name="Lykins" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Staughton |first=John |date=2019-11-28 |title=What Is Vorarephilia? |url=https://www.scienceabc.com/social-science/what-is-vorarephilia.html |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=ScienceABC |language=en-US}}</ref> In some cases, vorarephilia may be described as a variation of ] and may combine with other paraphilias.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ceilán |first=Cynthia |url=https://archive.org/details/weirdlybelovedta0000ceil |title=Weirdly Beloved: Tales of Strange Bedfellows, Odd Couplings, and Love Gone Bad |publisher=Globe Pequot |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-59921-403-0 |page=90 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Apart from macrophilia, vore fantasies often have themes of ], ], ], ], and sexual cannibalism.<ref name="Lykins" /><ref name=":1" />{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (]).|date=November 2024}}
== Terminology ==
The term ''vorarephile'' describes someone who enjoys vore. Most vorarephiles describe themselves as being "]" — 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 ]).<ref> Accessed 26 February 2008</ref>


Most vorarephiles are not overly interested in ];<ref name=":1" />{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (]).|date=November 2024}} instead, they may get their pleasure from the psychological aspects, such as the total annihilation of identity. This does not necessarily indicate ] tendencies but is more often linked to general fantasies of ] and ].{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
⚫ == Variates ==
=== Soft Vore ===
Soft vore describes scenarios where prey is consumed alive and whole, often without it being harmed before reaching the stomach. Because of its non-violent nature, soft vore is commonly regarded as more sensual and sexually oriented. Willing or unwilling prey in soft vore prey are either ], ] or simply held in the ]. Some vorarephiles who derive pleasure from watching animals eat other animals enjoy watching ]s eating, this is because they usually swallow their prey whole, a major element in soft vore.<ref></ref>


== Variations ==
Non-sexual soft vore is often used in a wide variety literature. These may be based on Native American folklore, such as one story where Coyote enters the stomach of a giant to rescue a number of people who were eaten alive, or the biblical story of ]. Soft vore is also used in current day cartoons and ] (which includes "Eat or Be Eaten: Panic in the Forest," an episode of the anime series ] ). Most of these are seen as a harmless sight gag or a minor inconvenience for a character.
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There are several variations to the fantasy, often changing the way in which the victim is ingested. Typically, when the victim is consumed ], artwork may depict what is known as "soft vore", meaning that the victim is swallowed whole and enters the ] of the consumer, then is either left unharmed or ] inside.<ref name=":0" /> If the victim is kept safe (also known as ''endo vore'' or ''endosoma''), the victim can eventually be let out by ] or ], whereas if digestion happens, the victim is usually killed, but may be magically reformed in some cases.<ref name=":1" />{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (]).|date=November 2024}} 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.<ref name=":0" />


Aside from oral vore, there are plenty of subcategories, some of which are:
=== Hard Vore ===
*Anal vore depicts the victim being ingested through the ] instead of the mouth.
Hard vore describes scenarios where prey is subjected to injuries of being ripped and chewed. This type of vore involves ], ], ] and usually also involves ]. Although inherently there is no sexual characteristic to these portrayals, to someone with a vore fetish, they could be taken in a sexual context. Hard vore has sometimes been referred to as "gore" to separate it from soft vore.<ref></ref>
*Unbirth is the ingestion of a victim through the ] of the consumer.
*Cock vore depicts the insertion of a victim into the ] of the consumer (which may be depicted as ]).
*Breast vore depicts the insertion of a victim into the ]s of the consumer.
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 ] in some way.<ref name=":0" />


The sizes of the consumer and 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.<ref name="Lykins" />
Non-sexual hard vore is regularly portrayed in movies for mature audiences, such as the ] franchise and ].<ref></ref>


=== Combinations === == Research ==
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Being a ], any orifice may be thought of as capable of vore, but it's really just adding a body part to the word vore. This incorrect use of the word vore is now common place. Examples of this well known twisting of the word vore are the "genital vore" scenarios, which includes ''unbirth''. Unbirthing involves being consumed by the ] and taking refuge in the woman's ],<ref name="unbirth"></ref> 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.<ref name="unbirth"/>


One ] analysis connected the fantasy with ], and suggested that it could be motivated by a desire to merge with a more powerful other or permanently escape loneliness.<ref name="Lykins" /> With "no known treatment" for vorarephiles who feel 'ill' with their sexuality, psychologists at Toronto's ] have recommended trying to "adjust to, rather than change or suppress" the sexual interest.<ref name="NP">{{cite news | author = Brean, Joseph | date = 1 October 2013 | url = https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/man-who-desired-to-be-eaten-by-a-large-dominant-woman-a-baffling-case-for-toronto-psychiatric-hospital-doctors | title = Man who desired to be eaten by a 'large, dominant woman' a baffling case for Toronto psychiatric hospital doctors | work = National Post}}</ref> Medication for ] reduction could be used if deemed necessary.<ref name="Lykins" />
"Male Genital Vore," commonly called ''cock vore'', refers to being consumed by the ].<ref></ref> This involves the urethral opening at the top of the penis, after which they are pulled down the ] to the predator's ], in which prey is absorbed, digested, or turned into semen (sometimes known as "cum vore") and ]. A lesser known variant involves the prey to be taken to the ] for conversion to semen, or to the ] for storage or digestion.<ref></ref>


==See also==
Not well known, ''Anal vore'' describes being consumed by the ].<ref></ref> 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 ] of the predator for a varying length of time. ''Breast vore'' describes prey being engulfed into the predator's ] through the ]s.<ref></ref> Prey consumed is usually then held in the predator's breast where they are occasionally transformed into breast milk.
*] – Sexual arousal by the risk of being killed

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== Related fetishes ==
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''Macro vore'' is quite common, which describes being consumed by a large or giant predator.<ref name=voreclub></ref> Commonly called "giantess vore" (when the predator is a female), is commonly a mixture of ], a fetish for giants. In ''micro vore'', on the other hand, is a combination of ], in which the predator is smaller than its prey<ref name=voreclub/> (this often involves ]). ''Scat'' is combined with vore as ], in which the prey has been digested (or pushed through the ] alive) and excreted out.<ref name=voreclub/>
*] – Animals' behaviours involving eating their mates during or after copulation

*] – Sexual arousal by situations involving food
] 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 ] (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 ] and ] 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 ]s. 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 ] 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:
* ] meets ]
* (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 ]s in which boy bemoans his fate (if swallowed ]/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 ], 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 ] 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 ] 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== ==References==
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== External links ==
==Further reading==
⚫ * {{Wiktionary inline|vorarephilia}}
* Agnès Giard, ''Le sexe bizarre: Pratiques érotiques d'aujourd'hui'', 2004, ISBN 2749102863. A book on unusual paraphilia and their communities; includes a chapter on vorarephilia.
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Sexual fetish

Not to be confused with Sexual cannibalism.
An example of manga-style vorarephilic artwork

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.

Most vorarephiles are not overly interested in sadomasochism; instead, they may get their pleasure from the psychological aspects, such as the total annihilation of identity. This does not necessarily indicate suicidal tendencies but is more often linked to general fantasies of escapism and solitude.

Variations

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There are several variations to the fantasy, often changing the way in which the victim is ingested. Typically, when the victim is consumed orally, artwork may depict what is known 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. 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.

Aside from oral vore, there are plenty of subcategories, some of which are:

  • Anal vore depicts the victim being ingested through the anus instead of the mouth.
  • Unbirth is the ingestion of a victim through the vagina of the consumer.
  • Cock vore depicts the insertion of a victim into the penis of the consumer (which may be depicted as erect).
  • Breast vore depicts the insertion of a victim into the breasts of the consumer.

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.

The sizes of the consumer and 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.

Research

This section needs more reliable medical references for verification or relies too heavily on primary sources. Please review the contents of the section and add the appropriate references if you can. Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Vorarephilia" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2023)

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' 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

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 from Eka's Portal" (PDF). Internet Archive (published 4 September 2023). 25 July 2021. 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. ^ Staughton, John (28 November 2019). "What Is Vorarephilia?". ScienceABC. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  7. 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.
  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
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