Vore is not Cannibalism.

Posted by Zombie_Slave 8 years ago

 

While cruising around on the internet I came across a Buzzfeed article about vore. I was like, oh, a muggle website found vore, I wonder what they think of it. I clicked on the article and started reading. As I read, I got more and more frustrated because it was obvious the writer did a very basic search for what vore was, basically regurgitating wikipedia, and then closed out the article by describing a real life incidence of vore where some police officer somewhere was discovered hatching a plot to kill and eat somebody.

Then today I'm on GiantessCity and I see a post labeled as vore. So of course I click on it. The OP gives a link to a story about a supposed old woman who killed and ate 14 people. The OP asks something to the effect of, "Do you vore lovers get off on this?" The news story link goes one step further and references a wikipedia article about a famous cannibal in germany who killed and ate a willing victim he enticed on the internet. Out of curiosity, I read this story and I noticed at the bottom of the article under SEE ALSO was listed....vorarephilia.

This kind of thing is cropping up more and more and I'm increasingly frustrated by it. Vore is such a weird thing. People from the outside looking in have got to be freaked out and more than a little confused by it. However vore is not cannibalism and I'm getting kind of sick of people equating the two. Is there a fine line between the two? I don't think so, and here's why.

I've had the vore "fetish" long before I knew what a fetish was. Every since I was a child I've had a fascination with mouths, being swallowed, being inside someone (or something's) stomach. To this day I have no idea why. Being interested in size-transformation (giantess, shrink) naturally spawned out of that because I like the idea of being small inside someone's mouth. As ridiculous as all that sounds, it's purely in the realm of imagination. It's fun, it's dumb, but I like it. Sometimes the fantasies are dark. Being eaten and digested alive is not pleasant when thought about in realistic terms, which comes out a lot in my stories and photo-manips, but again, this is always in the realm of imagination. Whether the story is dark, happy, sexual, silly, it doesn't matter. Why would someone equate the imaginative fantasy of being tiny and swallowed alive to the desire of wanting to kill, butcher, and eat human flesh?

It pisses me off quite frankly.

But how can vore and cannibalism be different? Eating people is eating people, right? Wrong. Vore, with it's giantess', shrinking, dragons, ponies, snakes, monsters--just to name a few--is quite literally fantasyland. The stories and fantasies cannot be acted upon. And the stories, no matter how dark or graphic, cannot be acted upon real people (unless you have a really, really big snake or something). Cannibalism on the other hand, can. I find it absurd to put vorarephila, with it's nagas, dragons, giants, and stomach-play, in with a category that, if acted upon in real life, involves murder and butchery. So because I think about a woman swallowing another, that means I want to go out and eat someone's flesh in real life? Hell no!

So there is one problem which may make me sound hypocritical. I enjoy making photo-manips with shrunken women in food, made to look like they are going to be consumed. This implies hard-vore, the act of biting or chewing instead of swallowing. I'll even describe the women as looking delicious, yummy, etc. It's disturbing for sure and not for everyone. I think it's the 'woman in peril' thing and the anticipation of being eaten that I like about it. So, doesn't hard-vore imply that I would want to eat somebody's flesh? Again, hell no! It's pure imagination. Just because Stephen King likes to write about psycho clowns, doesn't mean he wants to go around killing people dressed as one (I hope). Likewise, if I write a horror story or make a photo-manip of a shrunk woman getting put in a pot or a bowl of salad, that doesn't mean I would want to f'ing murder someone and eat them. Just because someone likes vore, whether it's soft, hard, absorption, whatever, does not mean he wants to eat flesh like a zombie from Walking Dead.

So there's my rant. I don't think vorarephiles should be put into the same category as IRL cannibals. What do you all think? Am I on point? Disagree? I think we should stand up for ourselves. We may be weird, but we're not sickos.