If you think one level deeper. Why do you enjoy vore?

[Aboriginal]

When did you start to develop this fetish?
As a small child, 4-5 probably.

Did you ever think about it?
A lot of the time. Lots of fantasy.

Did you ever try to fight it?
Yes, I hated being human. It even brought me to the brink of death with a kind of anorexia from refusing to eat. My own vore fetish consumed me with angst.

Did anything work?
Anti-psychotics. Kept it at bay just enough for me to enjoy masturbation but not get bent out of shape from eating and digestion. Now, my new anti-psychotics don't treat my vore fetish, but I've grown and have come to appreciate it more.

Or is there no hope?
There are three hopes for me, perhaps not as the question intended. Matrix-style virtual reality where a brain-computer interface can transport one to a simulated vore scenario e.g. Felarya. This may not happen in my lifetime, as we are lacking in both computer processing power to simulate the physics realistically and of course being anywhere near having a working brain-computer virtual reality interface. My second hope is, if not in this lifetime, maybe the next. Third, maybe there will be vore in Heaven. Some Near-Death experiences report food and sex being in Heaven.

What human need does is fulfill for you?
Vorarephilia is a gift from God that I hope to carry with me through eternity. I know not how many incarnations ago and in what way Vorarephilia was triggered in me, but it is such an intimate, deep part of my soul from early on in my youth that surely my soul's memory triggered it in me. Surely I will always be a voraphile .
Being alive means eating other living things, which disturbs me because its patently unfair that they get to be a part of me as my collective, but I am alone and individual. They die inside me, yet I live and yet they live as part of my constitution. Yet once isn't enough, what's on my stomach doesn't stay there long, and it is a hungering, gnawing hole again waiting to annihilate something else for my gain. As I was given life, as all life is given, as I take, so too do I want to be taken as all life is.
The answer to this conundrum is binary. Either be like 99.9999% of people on the planet and ignore / don't care about the issue, or do care and embrace the psyche's solution to such pain, embrace the magic of vore. Say a prayer at each meal or masturbation that I will be reconciled in vore, and the debt balanced. IMO just being alive with vore as long as I have, its worth it. I can only imagine what the payoff could be if God would have us who wish to honor our debt to do so through the assimilation of our souls into the collective through vore.

[FutureBellyAche]

My answers may not be as interesting as some of the other people, but I wanted to throw my hat in the ring as well.
When did you start to develop this fetish?
I was most definitely young, 4-6 or so. I would smother myself in blankets and pretend cartoon characters would be devouring me.

Did you ever think about it?
Vore played a big part in my awkward teenage years, and even a good bit before that. One awkward kid who got bullied a lot was my friend, and we would roleplay his charizard eating my Pikachu. Out loud. During school. Looking back it's kinda funny I didn't get bullied for that. Also funny how that same guy I currently play DnD with. I hope to god he doesn't remember those cringy roleplays. All he should remember is my current cringy roleplay.
Following the cringy roleplay train, I had a surprising amount of girls who I'd text and get into a roleplay somehow. And only two of them stopped texting me! Better track record than I probably deserved. One of which ended up being my only serious girlfriend. Who is the only one of the girls I revealed my fetish too, as well as a giantess fetish. Which was kinda funny since she was a pretty tiny girl.
I eventually stopped doing this when I found eka's and found the seeking RP threads and did some underage RPing on a seperate account from this one, I had to be around 16 or 17 back then. (I'm of age now, 21 currently and 22 in a couple weeks). Wasn't my first time cybering though. Separate story. 12 years olds are terrible at sex, and nobody in Aurora Blade knew I was in elementary school.

Did you ever try to fight it?
Back on topic though, the closest I got to suppressing it was I stopped pushing roleplays on girls. And the world thanked me for it.
Besides that, I got caught a couple times looking at fetish art before I became an expert at hiding it. Think some of the first art I found was Karbo art, the one of the demonesses eating tinies. I think? Point is, I never tried to hide it and kind of quickly realized it was something I should try to hide. Except to the girl's I would try and get to satisfy my urges. Besides that I didn't tell anybody.

Did anything work?
Not being creepy over text worked for me.

Or is there no hope?
I dunno if I can view vore as being a huge part of who I am. So much so that the fact I am a vorephile can make me lose hope. I'm a lot of things, a vorephile is one of them. Now whether you can find a lover to satisfy your fetish, that's a whole other issue. The closest I got irl was the one girl I told nibbling on my ear. It warmed my heart that she'd even try. Didn't have the heart to tell her she was a bit off.

What human need does it fulfill for you?
It's legit the porn that gets me off. I'll fully admit vore has this perverted sense of romance to me. Giving yourself to another, or demanding the other's existence to satisfy your urges is romantic to me. The more twisted this dynamic is, the more I'll enjoy the vore. This perverted sense of romance applies to other fetishes as well, entrapment and whatever I get into at the time.

That was fun.