In some cases, vorarephilia may be described as a variation of macrophilia and may combine with other paraphilias. Expressions can involve humans, animals, dragons, giant snakes, and other creatures, real or fictional.
Vore is most often enjoyed through pictures, stories, videos, and video games, and it can appear in mainstream media. Since vorarephilic fantasies cannot usually be acted out in reality, they are often expressed in stories or drawings as well as AI characters on the Internet. Usually, vorarephilic fantasies involve a consumer (sometimes called a predator or pred) ingesting one or multiple victims (sometimes called prey) in some way. The word vorarephilia is derived from the Latin vorare (to 'swallow' or 'devour'), and Ancient Greek φιλία ( philía, ' love'). Vore fantasies are separated from sexual cannibalism because the living victim is normally swallowed whole. 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. An example of manga-style vorarephilic artwork
