>>56034 Not a wiki bro but vore probably was a thing before the internet, just not something that people build communities/art around. But it's honestly impossible to know how big it was/how it spread before the internet. It's also something that I highly doubt we'll ever see studies/analysis of. I just can't imagine there ever being a 'vore community' prior to the internet and online anonymity, especially at a time when other more mainstream fetishes were already viewed as mental illnesses

>>56037 Ask chatgpt or gemini. The librarians of the internet.

I've been contemplating this for several decades. Back in the 1990's, Yahoo groups began to form, dedicated to people with giantess and vore fantasies/fetishes. Until then, I'm pretty sure all of us just thought we were nuts and kept it a secret. After seeing tens of thousands of members join, there was a gleam of hope that we are not alone...there are others who share our fantasy, and that helped to ease some of the embarrassment and shame surrounding this fantasy/fetish. I've exhausted many possibilities as to the genesis of this fantasy....conditioning, curiosity, comfort, a plethora of others. I'm still not entirely convinced there isn't a potentially spiritual factor at play - something along the lines of samsara, or reincarnation. If I had been eaten in a past life, perhaps that is why vore resonates so much with me. Truthfully, I think if you were able to figure out why all of us have the desire we do, there'd be a cornucopia of different reasons. Just as we are all wired in vastly different ways that make our fingerprint in the universe truly unique, we were led to our desires through different paths. Of course I hope to be proven wrong, and find out there is a much simpler, more quantifiable reasoning behind it, but after decades of contemplation, I am still at a loss. Silver lining: the not knowing makes it all the more mysterious! We weren't meant to be able to explain EVERYTHING in the universe. How boring would that be?

>>56034 They say that the foot fetish is caused by cross wiring between the foot and genitalia in the brain area, so it could be possible that we have a connection similar to that. Also with the amount of humans alive, I believe there exists is a chance that a small population of them would fetishize vore, because of the brain wiring shenanigans

My best assumption is that it crosses over with other psychological conditions. Every single person I've spoken to in the vore community including myself have some kind of neuro-diverse condition. As with any neurodiversity it develops in the womb, you're born with it and you're stuck with it. Your brain wiring is different from what "standard" brain would have. It will initially be non sexual when exposed to it but once you enter puberty it will change to being sexual and become a fetish. Exposure is so easy these days with the internet and media it not surprising that it's far more common now. What causes neurodiversity is whole other ball game. Mostly dependent on the mothers biology and other factors during pregnancy. There have been studies on why but it's still most conjecture, much more research is required to find the cause.

>>56034 My personal hypothesis explaining the prey side of vorarephilia is toxoplasmosis. The toxoplasma gondii parasites are known to alter behavior of infected mice and if is already proven that they are capable of slightly altering decision making in infected humans. The toxoplasma in its life cycle needs to transfer from infected mouse to a cat, this happens by the mouse getting eaten. The mice are good at not getting eaten, so the toxoplasma removes fear of cats from mice brain. Some papers suggest that the infected mice are even attracted to the cats. This mean that an infected mouse sees an approaching cat and it just sits there looking at the cat until it gets eaten. But toxoplasma can get into human brain as well, and in some countries up to 50% of population is infected. The effects of toxoplasma could explain why so many people are so fascinated by cats. Moreover, it has already been pointed out that manga/anime style of drawing adds cat-like facial features to people. Now look at the preds in vore, lot of them have cat-like features: cat ears, fangs, cat eyes, playing with prey and they even cough-up remains of prey. This could be basically trigger for the toxoplasma behavior: feline predator is approaching and the prey is just standing there looking at them until they are eaten. So I basically think that toxoplasma parasites are trying to get people eaten, the effects of toxoplasma over the years lead to the prey part of vorarephilia. Note: some source speculate that toxoplasma in humans is altering the behavior to get people eaten by large felines which it can infect. This was a real option during the evolution of humans and toxoplasma.

>>56063 Bonus points for saying "toxoplasmosa" 11 times in your response. LOL Interesting theory. This article is good for some background reading (https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13006). It appears that it can be transmitted through the consumption of undercooked meats and passed through the placenta to a fetus, so that would explain how some people are born with an affinity toward vore. HOWEVER, it seems like the toxoplasmosis theory assumes the presence of the toxoplasma gondii parasite within the host is a requirement to exhibit the associated behavior. The presence of the bacteria can be detected through blood tests, and I've had many of those throughout my life and have never been informed of any presence of parasitic infection. It seems highly improbable that a brief inhabitation of the parasite could "hardwire" the brain towards voraphilia, even during organogenesis. It's definitely an interesting theory, though, and definitely worth investing more research into.

I’ve had a philosophical boner to analyze the shit outta the parts of my brain that make the least amount of sense. So I’ve thought about this for a while. I only have my own experiences to go off of, but to me vore operates as both a metaphor and metaphoric springboard to intensely romantic feelings. Alot of voraphiles have common experiences as kids watching cartoons or otherwise experiencing the concept of vore early on and describing a “weird feeling/string of thought” they could feel but not explain. Something about vore as a concept works like a bug to access hidden content that isn't finished yet. Since that unfinished content is the love center of the brain, your brain starts finishing the content using your vore experiences and voila: you now have a fetish. The only big difference I see between that and foot fetishism is you can quite literally brute force it into young enough kids. Vore just kinda shows up as far as I can tell. Both operate on the system however of “reinforce it enough as a kid and it’ll become more interesting than sex bc thats what your brain thinks you want” Thats why it makes sense to me that most people that are into vore have vastly different opinions on what makes vore cool. Its a pre-chewed version of romance our brains seek out before they are developed for it, after that the qualities of vore that are most pleasurable to that individual become the things they think vore has always been. If you want statistics, someone interviewed (I think 2000?) people on aryion about it. Fun read

>>56070 Quick addition someone mentioned autism above me and YES I fully agree bc the people I find that are into vore or even are into other weird shit like inflation or even furries sometimes are the people that make THE MOST amount of sense to me. Something about how autists handle concepts or something

>>56069 The DOI link is not working for me. As for reading, some of the work was done in the field of toxoplasma-psychology by prof. Flegr. Sorry for repeating myself so much. Instructing LLMs for programming leads one to write, in this type of explicit way. As for the tests, the toxoplasma tests do have high false negative rate. This can be because the toxoplasma mostly stays in the brain IIRC.

I can say wholeheartedly, my first understanding of the kink was well before I had access to Internet of any form. I was in kindergarten or some shit, and I imagined the school nurse giving me a kiss, but then swallowing me whole. And as I drifted through her body, smaller other nurses kept kissing me as well, inside her. I don't think I ever met that school nurse, just always been horny 😆😆😆 I also had a lot of cats in my younger years, so I dig the toxoplasmosis theory a ton

>>56063 I think that this post is a lot of cope for being a prey slut for cats. An interesting take nonetheless. I think there's several ways to look at it, Psychological Development: Fetishes often develop from associations made during early psychological development. For some individuals, vore may represent a symbolic fusion of control, intimacy, and vulnerability. It could stem from early childhood experiences or fantasies that, over time, become eroticized. Biological and Evolutionary Factors: Humans have a natural curiosity and fear related to being consumed or consuming others, which can be traced back to survival instincts. In some individuals, these primal fears or fascinations might get mixed with sexual feelings, leading to a fetish. Power and Control: Vore fantasies often involve themes of dominance and submission, which are common in various other fetishes. The idea of consuming or being consumed can be seen as the ultimate expression of control or surrender, which may be sexually appealing to some people. Symbolism and Metaphor: Vore might symbolize extreme intimacy or union, representing a desire to be wholly absorbed by or to wholly possess another person. It can also metaphorically reflect a longing for closeness or the complete dissolution of boundaries between self and other. Fantasy and Escapism: Like many fetishes, vore may serve as a form of escapism, allowing people to explore desires and scenarios that are impossible or taboo in reality. The fantastical nature of vore can provide a safe space to engage with extreme or unusual themes. Internet and Community Influence: Online communities and forums dedicated to niche fetishes can amplify interest and provide a sense of belonging for people with these interests. Exposure to and participation in these communities can reinforce and deepen the fetish.

Pretty sure there are lots of overlapping fetishes that kind of morph into vore. Like how there is a bunch of sub-tags for vore like hard, soft, guro, digestion, pred, and prey. For me and those in my age range there were tons of vore things growing up ranging from Jurassic Park to Tom and Jerry scenes where Jerry would have to escape Tom's stomach. I remember first learning about beating off and I had dreams of jerking off into the mouth of a T-Rex. Like my specific fetish is I'm really into bj's, and vore is almost the 'ultimate' bj. Like I would want to sit on a giant girls tongue and cum down her throat. My favorite comics are ones with 'voreception' where a girl getting swallowed gives one last bj while being swallowed. Or minipeople getting drowned in cum in a mouth then swallowed. Which is also why I myself am not into like real hard vore where people get chewed up or shit out.

>>56089 I've been "into" it as long as I can remember. Didn't know it was a fetish until I discovered jacking off though.

I know my vore trigger definitively. When i was a kid i was pretty afraid of things, comparatively way more afraid than most kids would be of the same things. My mother was often stressed and angry because of her toxic family so during pregnancy this probably fucked with my brain. Anyway I was flipping through cartoons around the age of 5 and Spirited Away came on. Of course it was the one scene where Kaonashi ate the hotel staff whole and it scared the shit out of me. I screamed to my grandma cause she was in the room and she turned off the TV. 20 years later I still had a latent feeling of hesitancy to even watch the movie. So yeah. I know part of my fetish is psychologically conditioned. Could also be biological cause my dad watches hentai, and generally my dads side of the family is autistic.

>>56034 >What is the cause of vorarephilia? It just makes my dick hard. What's there to discuss? The honest reality with a lot of fetishes is that you can very easily control them and curtail which ones you do and don't like. After all, no or nor nothing is forcing you to look them up nor seek them out. You're just choosing to do so of your own free will.