What Is Vore? A Closer Look At This Extreme Eating Fetish

Have you ever heard of Vore practice, or would you like to try it with your partner? Learn more about Vore in this article before indulging in this fetish activity.

Numerous fetishes and sexual preferences come with shame or weirdness, but not more than vorarephilia. The term vorarephilia (often shortened to Vore) comes from the Latin name "vorare," which means devour or swallow. Therefore, Vore refers to the fetish of eating characterized by an individual getting erotically attracted to the process of eating. Essentially, Vore represents the erotic desire by an individual to be consumed or sometimes consume another person or creature. In the traditional sense, this fetish is not practically possible and is therefore expressed in the fantastical sense via stories and art or shared on the internet.

This fetish revolves around fantasies that express giants, dragons, or huge snakes eating people or other creatures, and people eating or being eaten by other people, either in bites or swallowing them whole. Usually, folks who fancy this fetish are sexually aroused by the general practice of eating. Since Vore can't be acted in reality, the fetish is enjoyed via video games, pictures, or stories – even in the mainstream media.

Some vore fantasies contain extreme themes such as those in BDSM, furry fetishism, sexual cannibalism, pregnancy, or unbirthing (which refers to the erotic desire to be swallowed whole back into the vagina and to the womb). Mental health experts and psychologists have suggested that vorarephiles are more likely to suppress this form of sexual interest. However, medication can be administered to reduce libido in severe cases. With that in mind, let's examine the sexual fetishes related to vorarephilia and take a closer look at this extreme eating fetish.

What is Vore?

As already mentioned, Vore is a type of paraphilia (fetish) whereby an individual gets aroused at the role-playing act of being eaten by or eating another person or creature. Essentially, it is a sexual fetish in which folks get aroused or are sexually gratified by the idea of eating another person or creature, being eaten by another person or creature, and observing the process.

The mainstream media has plenty of pervasive stories or movies in which monsters devour innocent protagonists. While popular culture classifies this as entertainment, some associate this consumption narrative with sex. This behavior is referred to as vorarephilia.

Why Vorarephilia Is Practically Impossible

Vore is characterized by abnormal sexual desire in which people get sexual gratification from dangerous behavior. Given that events linked to this paraphilia are practically impossible, we rarely see or hear real-world cases of vorarephilia. As such, vorarephiles seldom fulfill their sexual fantasies. This explains why online vore forums and groups feature mythical characters, cartoons, and animations.

Types of Vore

Soft Vore

This includes pictures of something or someone swallowing or being swallowed whole without the involvement of death or bloodshed. It is a form of vore interest in which no character suffers pain at all. In this type of Vore, if a person has been swallowed whole, they can be released from consumption.

Hard Vore

It includes images of someone being devoured with a show of flesh tearing, eating, and bloodshed. It is a much deeper form of vore interest that most people find distressing. Folks who fancy hard Vore are sometimes believed to be cannibals. In hardcore vore, the person being devoured endures pain, more so because it includes graphic images of flesh being torn, bitten, ripped apart, and eventually being swallowed.

Fetishes Linked to Vorarephilia.

The realms of paraphilia and sexual fantasies have seen many character associations and overlaps. Overall, the following fetishes share common characteristics with vorarephilia:

Macrophilia

These fantasies involve large or giant women dominating and swallowing smaller male partners.

Sexual Cannibalism

This is the behavior of deriving sexual erotism from someone devouring another, usually by tearing flesh before swallowing.

Unbirthing

This is a character's desire to re-enter the vagina and back to the uterus – a form of paraphilia usually associated with the soft type of Vore.

Other fetishes associated with vorarephilia include Furry fetishism, BDSM, and coprophilia.

Vorarephilia Vs. Sexual Cannibalism

Many sexual fantasy kinks have been established to overlap with Vore, but few more so than sexual cannibalism. Many case studies on erotic consumption and masochism have suggested that proponents of Vore shouldn't face any form of emotional retribution because vorarephilia is a sexual act. As such, they should disregard any form of suppression of this behavior and try to express it. Vore and sexual cannibalism have both been described by common phrases that exist in our everyday communications, including:

Describing people, especially the sexually appealing types, as being “appetizing,” “tasty,” “juicy,” or “sweet.”

Describing an attractive person as “looking good to eat.”

Christian religious metaphorical sayings in which the blood and flesh of Jesus are eaten as a sacrament ritual.

However, as mentioned above, many overlaps still exist in the realm of sexual fantasies. The few notable differences and similarities between Vore and sexual cannibalism include:

The victim is swallowed alive and whole in Vore via the mouth, anus, nipples, or vagina. In sexual cannibalism, the victim is devoured with the process being accompanied by chewing and tearing the flesh for pleasure.

Both sexual kinks are illegal and are only fulfilled via mythical stories, videos, images, pervasive video games, etc.

The Bottom Line

Vore is an abnormal sexual desire in which folks derive sexual gratification from being eaten, eating another person, or watching the process unfold. Because these fantasies never come to fruition in the real world, proponents of Vore engage in this fetish via the mainstream media, especially in the form of video games, stories, and cartoons. Vore can be classified into two depending on whether the characters suffer pain or not, namely, soft and hard Vore. Vorarephilia, as a sexual fetish, has a long-standing history in art and storytelling. However, it has come to the forefront in the fetish and kink community only recently.