some questions relating to history.

[nonexistenttriangle]

i was recently getting interested in where did the whole thing of vore come from. i mean not evolutionarily or psychosexually but like. whats the first piece of art we can conceivably consider to be akin to modern vore stuff. when did people first start calling it vore. all that stuff. now i have one answer for the origins of vore as it is presently, but its not verified and only exists as a vague memory. i think i heard someone say, i think even here, that what we modernly call vore (not counting stories of people just being eaten and living that sort of thing could be thought up by anyone, you don't need to be into vore to think of that, you can even find that in the fucking bible and tell me with a straight face that whoever wrote that shit down was into vore.) can be traced back to japan somewhere in the 80s. but this isn't very. conclusive. i cant even find the quote from the person who said that nor what context they said it in other than that vague memory.

so i am writing this post here to ask if anyone knows about the origins of vore in its modern form.

[Wolfsbone]

I am not educated on this but I would also be interested to learn about the history of vore. Something I have noticed a lot of is vore happens to be a concept that exists in a lot of media, especially media that is meant for children. I guess maybe that is a common fear for children is being eaten. Even parents or people interacting with children sometimes use the phrase "you're so cute, I could just eat you up." So it's interesting to me how vore is "sort of" introduced at a young age. (Disclaimer: I am not saying this is a good thing. This is just what I have experienced from my own perspective. Children and sexual related things should be kept separate up to the age of consent in whatever country you live in.) Some examples of this is Serpentina from the power rangers series who swallowed the rangers in the series. Source: https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Serpentina
Rudy (The large white dinosaur) in the latest Ice Ages, nearly swallowing Buck. Source: https://iceage.fandom.com/wiki/Rudy#:~: ... 0existence.
And even in Spongebob, I can think of multiple examples involving plankton as well as when The Flying Dutchman tries to eat Spongebob, Patrick, and Squidward. (https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_Dutchman)

I suppose these examples are not necessarily (vore) where the eating of the characters is being explicitly sexualized, however it is still interesting to me just how often I see it popping up in media. Seems like it might just be left over parts of our brain from back when we were not at the top of the food chain. That's just my thoughts on the matter, I am interested to see what everyone else comes up with.

[Wanderer]

Vore and likely really most niche fetishes really only exist in the state they're in now because of the internet. People joke that the internet is for porn, but no force in history has been able to bring people and ideas together on this scale and so what you'd think is just your own kink, perhaps even madness, is instead given a community to grow and flourish. Before the internet what outlet would you have? Perhaps a few partners open to discussing such things with? If you're adventurous a small group sexually open individuals comparing turn-ons? Probably the highest gatherings of fetishes would occur among the upper crust and nobility who could arrange wild orgies where literally anything goes. Sure, there were probably always people with fetishes, but I can't see them growing into anything more than small, short-lived groups gathered by happenstance.

[gbboyth]

I know that there were giantess fetish videos that circulated in small numbers back in the VHS days - only because I know some people who collect fetish porn on VHS in general, and they've found it. That stuff was around in the late '80s/early '90s if you knew where to get it. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody did vore content back then too, although I've never seen any examples of it.

[GastricAztec]

I first got online in 2000, and there was a website called Big Gulp at that time. It was dedicated to vore, and that’s where I first heard the term vore. There are people who were online earlier than that who could describe how the term was first coined better than I could explain it.

[SnuggleCondaHuuungry]

Sexuality is the classic nature vs nurture at times, imo anything beyond the raw act of breeding like insects is some level of fetishism. Finding pleasure in someone You're attracted to can lead to some very interesting places. I used to not being able to look at the text of "LOL" without getting a massive erection. Just the dual feeling of, I made her happy and feeling appreciated at the same time and then her finding out later made it a weird/fun learned and then forgotten kink.

I've seen women turn gay from lack of male role models while trying to fit in with girls with higher social standings. Also queer from sexism idolship of older trans sister and disappointment in no one being able to match her sexual energy. It's not just something people are strictly born with. Only caring female figure I ever had in the 1st half of my life was my crippled grandma, while loving was also equal parts wise and intelligent in a way that made me extremely unattracted to many women as it's just not something women willing do meeting someone, they don't see the growth of others as a critical part of their sanitly and they turn inwards and don't give any respect or appreciation that takes to keep the other half thriving.

sry my heart is lost thinking about someone I decided I need to give her some time. I love her very much.

[Scratch]

My understanding from being around big gulp in the early 2000s is that Toby the Giant created the website in the late 90s for content with men being swallowed by giant men, and the website more or less grew into a general site for stories and pictures of people being eaten as well as a forum where the term developed. In the early 2000s there were already a number of websites using the term like voretex, VOR-COM, voraphile.net, etc. that either hosted content or linked to other websites, and debate over whether the actual term was voraphile or vorarephile (or phagophilia).