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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 or paraphilia 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.^{[citation needed]}

Vorarephilia is typically considered an "imaginary fetish", since practicing the fetish is practically impossible. Most vorarephiles are largely uninterested in more general cannibalism fantasies. 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.^{[citation needed]}

However, some vorarephiles derive their pleasure from watching nature films in which animals eat other animals.^{[citation needed]}

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).^{[citation needed]}

1 Soft vore
2 Hard Vore
3 Unbirth
4 See also
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Soft vore

Soft vore is a paraphilia where one fantasizes about being swallowed, watching another being swallowed, or swallowing someone or another living creature whole.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} There are many variations of this fetish, such as predator/prey roleplay.

Some vorarephiles who derive pleasure from watching animals eat other animals enjoy watching snakes eating, or videos thereof.^{[citation needed]} This is because constricting snakes usually swallow their prey whole, a major element in soft vore.

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, Naruto Uzumaki is swallowed whole by a giant snake, but eventually escapes with his characteristic indomitable zeal.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Hard Vore

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} Even the family movie Shrek contains an example of vore in the climactic final battle.

Although inherently there is no sexual characteristic to these portrayals, to someone with a vore fetish, they could be taken in a sexual context.

[edit] Unbirth

An unbirth is a paraphilia involving the desire to be "swallowed alive" by the female genitalia.^{[citation needed]} 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" -- especially when forced or it results in injury or death. 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" or Cockvore, of course, can not be a form of true unbirthing.

In fetish fiction, unbirthing often involves a character being transformed into a baby and then returned to the womb, but another common form of unbirthing, known as "total unbirthing", involves an entire adult body being taken into an adult female.^{[citation needed]} It is a popular fantasy with those who enjoy macrophilia and various back-to-the-womb fantasies, but while some sources online insist total unbirthing is possible or has actually happened, it would require such a vast size difference (< 1:20) between the two particpants that it is supremely unlikely. Another form of Unbirthing is called "Partial Unbirthing", or so called "adult heading" -- consisting of just the entire head of an adult being taken into a vagina. It is arguably possible, but even then there is controversy about whether it has ever truly happened and disagreements about whether photos of the practice are Photoshop fakes. 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 would required, it would have to be an extremely rare sexual activity.^{[citation needed]} There is also the question of oxygen supply for the person inserting their head. Because of the commitment required between partners before starting to do it, and the extensive stretching practice to prepare for it, it could only be a consensual sexual practice, and a "forced" unbirthing would be simply impossible.^{[citation needed]}

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.

References in popular culture include an allusion by Wrestling Aspiration Federation Superstar Xero, who performs the "vorePLEX" as one of his trademark wrestling moves.