Why is this fetish even a thing, anyway?

[darksign13]

As far as I can tell, it has to do with mental connections that form when we are young. As we grow, our brains just try to make sense of that data by turning it into a fetish. There isn't anything wrong with us, really, it's just our evolution working in a weird way. We're just as afraid of death as anyone, but this is just detached from that by being associated with something else. My personal theory is none of us would have this fetish at all if many parents weren't so timid about talking biology with younger children, but I digress.

[ExplosiveWaifu]

(Relius Clover voice) The human race is diverse on an unimaginable level. Everything's different about us, from our skin color, our eyes, our strengths, our weaknesses our experiences, and especially our likes and wants. Due to everyone's mind working/thinking in a somewhat-diverse way, there's gonna be some... 'odd' things here and there that don't 'line up' with everything else. Of course, this is normal, as everyone likes different things. In other words, it's normal to be not normal. There's gonna be some people out there that are into some stuff that makes little sense. You name it, people have a fetish for it. Death? Yep. Being set on fire? Probably. Multiple breasts with vaginas on the underside of each of them? Indeed... Some might say we're a little TOO diverse, but... I think it's fine. It actually makes me happy people like all sorts of stuff, because it reminds me on how vast the world is on so many aspects. Vore has a large community, but so does BDSM, anal fixation, filth, video games, ALL sorts of stuff. I'm not even TOUCHING the surface here.

In short, humans are very different, and end up having multiple interests of different magnitude. Some also people have these interests, and, well, a web starts to form over time.

[DrCaius]

Psychologically-speaking, in my opinion it's something about getting closer to someone or something, then it just branches off from there on if it's hard or soft vore, fatal or non-fatal, ect.

We're probably more normal along the lines of kinks.

I finally told my partner of 17 years (how long we've been together, not her age!) about my vore fetish this week. She is a psychologist by trade and wasn't at all shocked. Your opinion is probably correct.

Her professional opinion is that I want to be prey because I subconsciously wanted more affection from my mother as a child. Leading to a desire to be consumed, dominated, squeezed etc. That was just her analysis of my fetish, not others and especially not preds.

My response was "Pfft, yeah right, I'm not that soft. It's nothing to do with my childhood". She's probably right. But I'd never admit it.

[Vermono]

I wish I could tell you, just like how someone else said, there are some weirder fetishes out there. A regular vore fetish can kind of be explained to someone who doesn't explain it. The only thing that is hard to understand about vore is the weird and disturbing things people like about it such as digestion. Even I don't know about that one. There are people here on this website that wish to be or see someone else killed. Their fetish is to see other people or themselves die inside a person. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound sane to me and this is coming from a guy that likes vore...just the vore were people don't actually die in the end...

[at_tltb]

I think same size vore would be actually common fetish if only it's possible and so doesn't sound weird to the most of the people.
As long as it's possible, there are no reason it would be more weird than there actually exists people who want to be tortured, and even dominated.

It's quite obvious that the same reasons which make people love ryona thing can make some other people love vore as watchers,
It's even more obvious that the same reasons which make people love the situation of domination/submission can make some other people love vore as pred or prey.

I think the valid question is not 'why vore?' I believe that it would be, and should be 'why only vore?' or more exactly, 'what makes the vore special?'
Why we're sticking to this somewhat impossible things to fulfil the same desire?
This is the much harder (but still not impossible to handle) question I want to deal with.
'Why vore have an appeal?' question have handled so often and answered so well that there aren't anything I wanna add to the common answers.

[dreamweevil]

I thought I'd posted my answer here already, but looks like it didn't actually make it. Sorry for any duplication.

There are quite a lot of great answers in this thread already. Why is this a "thing"? All of the above.

I'm not a psychiatrist, but I have studied and written about sex and fetishes and dominance/submission for years. There are very few, if any, that I can't understand, even if I find some more arousing than others.

#1 observation: It's all completely normal. Scan this forum or any like it and you'll see this common refrain:

This weird thought turns me on and I don't know why! I must be a freak! Help!

. No. Unless it's materially interfering in your daily life-- and that's something you have control over-- then it's simply showing that you have a good imagination. This is a gift, not a curse.

#2: It's a lot more common than you think. Most people are afraid to share their thoughts for fear of being labelled that way. Here's something I bet most people didn't consider: in the replies above, there's lots of mentions of comics, animation, movies, or stories that initally "turned them on'" to a particular fetish. Ever consider that the creator of that media may have had the same fetish and knew what they were doing-- that the thing you thought was weirdly sexual actually was designed to be weirdly sexual by someone who has the same interest? That an animator or storyteller intentionally pushed that boundary as far as they thought they could get away with? It happens all the time and in all media. Read the history of the movie "Alien", for example. Even the original H.R. Giger drawings were supposed to be sexual while simultaneously frightening. The original eggs had an opening that looked pretty much exactly like a woman's vulva (this imagery was reworked later to have four lobes to spoil the obvious similarity and satisfy the censors). The "facehugger" is supposed to exploit the male fear of the female-- of impregnation, and so on. And while Alien was intended for adults, I'm convinced that other sexual thoughts invariably leak into other media, including that for children. Those authors are human: they can't help it. For example-- this simple, harmless-sounding lesson from ABC's "Grammar Rock" demonstrates female dominance:

Girls who are tall can get taller. Boys who are small can get smaller. Till one is the tallest, and the other's the smallest, of all.

That clip starts with a boy laughing at a girl because she's tall. At first she's embarassed by it, but as she grows and he shrinks, she starts to smile, and he gets frightened, and finally she stomps the boy out of existence.

It's not just media that does this: people do it all the time: in jokes, comments, etc. We leak our sexual interest like a sieve. When we sense that someone else is like us in that way, our ears perk up. It's just normal!

#3: Almost every "fetish" has a perfectly sensible origin, from a sexual point of view. A lot of people here, I think, have figured this out already, but finding those connections is a great game to play; you can almost always find a "bridge" from even the most unlikely sexual stimuli to the completely sensible instinct behind it. You know, six-degrees-of-separation style. Classical vore itself-- to eat or be eaten-- is sexual. A node in the "bridge" might be the classic vampire-- obviously sexual right from the beginning: the neck is an erogenous zone, to be bitten there is a form of willing self-sacrifice. You can fill in the connections on either side of that. Neat, huh?

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[Speedyblupi]

I finally told my partner of 17 years (how long we've been together, not her age!) about my vore fetish this week. She is a psychologist by trade and wasn't at all shocked. Your opinion is probably correct.

Her professional opinion is that I want to be prey because I subconsciously wanted more affection from my mother as a child. Leading to a desire to be consumed, dominated, squeezed etc. That was just her analysis of my fetish, not others and especially not preds.

My response was "Pfft, yeah right, I'm not that soft. It's nothing to do with my childhood". She's probably right. But I'd never admit it.

That sounds more like Freudian pseudoscience than actual psychology.

[Senrain]

I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of vore as well.

But really, what the fuck is wrong with us?

We're supposed to be afraid of being eaten. That's how animals (and plants) are supposed to react to this sort of thing. It's what keeps an animal alive.

And yet, here we are, hundreds or even thousands or maybe even more of us, SEXUALLY AROUSED by the thought of being eaten.

...What?

How did this happen? Did some weird genetic mutation happen a long time ago that managed to stick around and be spread to a bunch of people?

...Again, what the fuck?

I have zero idea myself. I never asked for this fucked up fetish but shit bro it's what I ended up.

Just try to come to terms with the fact that you have a garbage tier fetish.

[CalinBeast]

I blame cartoons. Seriously, how many of you learned you had a vore fetish at a young age from watching cartoon depictions of someone getting swallowed whole?

[Birichino]

Well, I like safe vore/endo, so for me, it's pretty physically intimate without any thanatos involved. As for other iterations, I can't say the reasons with confidence.
Though it's an extension of the same turn-ons as submissive and dominant things, I believe. For most if not all people, vore is purely fantasy, and were it truly possible, wouldn't be done. The same way actually being subjugated would be horrible, but fantasizing about it is a major turn-on for many.

[Liz]

Personally I don’t see anything wrong with a Fantasy fetish as long as no of it is brought over into real life. Simply put it, plenty of people have fetishes or enthusiasm towards death related themes like CSI, Castle, Criminal Minds and other American murder mysteries. It’s perfectly fine to enjoy those shows or like murder mysteries but in short it doesn’t make you a murder unless you do it in real life.

When it comes to the lewd fantasy stuff, I enjoy endo and digestion, fatal or non fatal and personally it doesn’t faze me due to its all fantasy.

As long it as it doesn’t affect your real life or you don’t break the fantasy element then I don’t see anything wrong with it at all. Life is short, enjoy it while you can

[N-Mario]

Honestly. We ARE afraid to be eaten by another creature IRL. It's the fact that fantasy vore is so much more comfortable to us because no one is getting hurt IRL. It's all fantasy.

[Kitsouille]

I don't think there's really something wrong with us, I mean we're not actually going outside to get eaten or shutting ourselves in our house to work on a shrinking/growth ray. The fact that it remains a fantasy for the most part is perhaps because we desire what we can't have. Kind of like playing video games??

[Mimzy]

Looney Tunes

[tomatosauce]

Hi Im new to this thread im just wondering if anyone here try to stop their fetish...

I get turn on if I see women's uvula. I usually making jokes or any kind of way to make them laugh so that I can see it moved/bounce and also looking at their uvula when they yawn. Sometimes they intended to show it to me if their tonsil/uvula is swollen and also asking me to look at their teeth they open their mouth letting me see their molars while talking and sometimes laughing.I cant stop not looking at it .
Nobody notice about my fetish and the reason why I want to stop it is because I dont want them to figure it out.

[DrCaius]

I finally told my partner of 17 years (how long we've been together, not her age!) about my vore fetish this week. She is a psychologist by trade and wasn't at all shocked. Your opinion is probably correct.

Her professional opinion is that I want to be prey because I subconsciously wanted more affection from my mother as a child. Leading to a desire to be consumed, dominated, squeezed etc. That was just her analysis of my fetish, not others and especially not preds.

My response was "Pfft, yeah right, I'm not that soft. It's nothing to do with my childhood". She's probably right. But I'd never admit it.

That sounds more like Freudian pseudoscience than actual psychology.

Maybe... but she IS a doctor of psychology with a behavioural specialisation and years of experience, who knows my personal history and is one of the leading/senior practitioners in our entire country. So is better qualified on cognitive matters than most others... and probably you.

Off to tell my electrician that's he's doing it wrong because I obviously know better than him, despite me not being a qualified in electrician.

[CalinBeast]

Honestly. We ARE afraid to be eaten by another creature IRL. It's the fact that fantasy vore is so much more comfortable to us because no one is getting hurt IRL. It's all fantasy.

Well... There's also the fact that vore (I.e. being swallowed whole and alive) is far different than, oh say, being mauled to death by lions, and having your flesh torn and eaten, the way animals realistically kill and devour their prey. I mean, non fatal vore wouldn't be so bad if such a thing were possible in real life.

[Kitsouille]

Hi Im new to this thread im just wondering if anyone here try to stop their fetish...

I get turn on if I see women's uvula. I usually making jokes or any kind of way to make them laugh so that I can see it moved/bounce and also looking at their uvula when they yawn. Sometimes they intended to show it to me if their tonsil/uvula is swollen and also asking me to look at their teeth they open their mouth letting me see their molars while talking and sometimes laughing.I cant stop not looking at it .
Nobody notice about my fetish and the reason why I want to stop it is because I dont want them to figure it out.

I understand your situation although I do not wish to stop liking this kind of stuff. My eyes are attracted to mouths like magnets and I fake yawns sometimes to make other cute people in front of me yawn so I can look inside their throat. But I consider you very lucky that your friends ask you to examine their mouth. I'm not an expert about psychology but I think suppressing a fetish might be a pretty hard thing. Maybe if you could redirect it toward one person such as a girlfriend or a fuck friend? Or is it something you can not resist no matter the situation you are in?

[ihhh]

All I know is that human technology prevents natural selection, thus allowing people with traits that would otherwise get them killed to survive and procreate.

[Jayezox]

All I know is that human technology prevents natural selection, thus allowing people with traits that would otherwise get them killed to survive and procreate.

Not to that degree though. If we willingly threw ourselves into a cage full of hungry lions or whatever, no amount of technology could save us from that. In fact, the same thing could be said for children playing violent video games. We'd all kill each other if we were actually blood hungry.

It's the other evolutionary adaptation of sapience that's protecting us. We are aware of what we are doing and use imagination to satisfy whatever dark desire we have. Without that adaptation, we wouldn't be protected from ourselves. Now that we are protected, we can have weird traits and carry on.