Vorarephilia
This article is about the sexual fetish. For the suffix, see -vore.Vorarephilia (also referred to as
voraphilia,
vore,
voreaphilia ,and
phagophilia) is the interest/
sexual fetish in which a person
fantasizes about eating another person and/or creature, being eaten him/herself, and/or watching another be eaten. Preferences vary, but most prefer to fantasize about being devoured whole and alive (soft vore), as opposed to those who prefer to be torn, chewed, and killed (hard vore). Those who prefer hard vore are sometimes referred to as "shreddies"; those who prefer soft vore, conversely, are known as "gulpies". Both types of vore are most commonly found portrayed in stories or cartoonish drawings and acted out in
internet role-playing.
Vorarephilia is typically considered an "imaginary fetish", since practicing the fetish is practically impossible. Most vorarephiles are largely uninterested in the idea of
cannibalism. The voreaphile typically has specific preferences concerning what roles they play in vore encounters, and some
MUCKs allow them to list these preferences in an accessible table to help match compatible vorarephiles.
This
fetish is often associated with
macrophilia and
microphilia, which makes it somewhat more plausible, as well as the
furry fandom, where predation is more natural in roleplaying. It is related to unbirth in some respects (both are types of
endosomatophilia).
Soft vore is a sexual fetish where one fantasizes about being swallowed, watching another being swallowed, or swallowing someone or another living creature whole. It is mainly found in
online roleplaying games, such as
World of Warcraft.
It is linked to
vore,
macrophilia,
microphilia,
unbirthing, and
endosomatophilia.
The term for the eater is commonly "pred", short for predator. While
hard vore (or
shreddy vore) involves tearing, biting, shredding, or chewing, soft vore is oriented towards swallowing the subject whole, often without it being harmed.
In soft vore, prey can be either willing or unwilling. Because of its non-violent nature, soft vore is commonly regarded as more sensual and sexually oriented. In soft vore prey are either digested, suffocated, or simply held in the stomach.
Although soft vore is defined by the prey going down whole, many have their own preferences on whether or not they want to be digested, snuffed or simply held in the stomach. There are many variations of this fetish, such as predator/prey roleplay.
Non-sexual soft vore is often used in a wide variety of cartoons. Most of these are seen as a harmless
sight gag or a minor inconvenience for a character such as
Jerry from
Tom and Jerry cartoons. Other times, this is used as an obstacle to be overcome. 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
Jonah. In the
anime series
Naruto,
Uzumaki Naruto is swallowed whole by a giant snake, but eventually escapes with the drive that he has to defeat his rival,
Uchiha Sasuke.
Hard vore is one object eating another, living object, with destructive, often fatal, results. The object consuming need itself not be living: vacuums, swimming pool drains, et cetera can be quantified as half of a vore scenario. The object being consumed can be animal or human.
Hard vore is regularly portrayed in movies. Movies such as Crocodile 1 and 2, the Jaws series, and Deep Blue Sea all contain examples of hard vore of both men and women.
Although inherently there is no sexual characteristic to these portrayals, to someone with a vore fetish, they could be taken in a sexual context.
An
unbirth is a
sexual fetish involving the desire to be "swallowed alive" by the female genitalia.Taking the desire to return to the womb to heart, unbirth fans will sometimes link to their new 'mother' via a magically adaptive umbilical cord, and remain happily ensconced for as long as their host permits. This fetish has been linked with the
age regression fetish.Unbirthing is simply a "reverse" birthing from outside into a vagina. This of course in a pure sense can only be into a female. It is sometimes referred to as "Female Genital Vore" in that case it is not considered a form of "Vore". "Male Genital Vore" or Cockvore, of course, can not be a form of true Unbirthing. Unbirthing comes in two forms:
1. The most common form of Unbirthing is known as "Total Unbirthing". A total adult body into an adult female would require a size difference of extremely small proportion (< 1:20) to be actual. There are various fictional stories. It probably has never happened -- even between very tiny midgets and real giantesses of the required size ratio. It is a popular fantasy with those who enjoy macrophilia and various back-to-the-womb fantasies.
2. The other form of Unbirthing is called "Partial Unbirthing". It is the only practical unbirthing possible and is a variety so extremely rare that only a few know about real cases. Even then it is only a "partial" unbirthing -- consisting of just the adult head into a vagina. Because less than one in a thousand women have a huge "justo major pelvis" (giant pelvis) whose boney opening would allow this, and because extreme vaginal stretching is required, it is an extremely rare sexual activity. Because of the commitment required between partners before starting to do it, and the extensive stretching practice to prepare for it, it is only a consensual, erotic, and mutually enjoyed sexual practice. Less than one couple in a million actually practice this sexual activity. This makes "partial unbirthing" or so called "adult heading" one of the most rare forms of human sexual activity.
Unbirthing has been a surprisingly common subject in mainstream fiction, most typically in horror stories: the anthology film [[Grim Prairie Tales) featured a story about a (seemingly) pregnant woman who turns out to be a serial unbirther, while such popular writers as {{J.G. Ballard}} (in the story
Mr. F is Mr. F) and {{Neil Gaiman}} (in the novel
{{American Gods}}) both wrote of sinister females who unbirthed unsuspecting men.
It should also be noted that the idea of an "Unbirthday" was featured in
{{Alice in Wonderland}}; this had nothing to with the returning to the womb, but was instead the practice of celebrating on all the days of the year that aren't your birthday.
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