For every player who wants his prey to go down kicking and screaming as he is ruthlessly gobbled up, there are others who enter a chatroom with the comment 'I'm feeling tasty tonight.' Some wish to be hunted while others offer themselves up on a platter, and not always figuratively. Vore is often a consensual activity, even when in character.

Furry vore is also made somewhat easier to depict since many furry characters do not wear clothes to begin with those eating often have claws to handle the rest. Its popularity may be due to a large number of predator/prey species that mingle daily, although some vorarephile characters will eat just about anything with no regard for the conventional food chain. Though still considered a fringe interest, vorarephilia is a relatively popular topic for roleplay and art in furry fandom, being shared to a greater or lesser extent by perhaps 2-5% of furry fans. Most vorarephiles are aware of the improbability of the paraphilia and are largely uninterested in the idea of cannibalism. Vorarephilia is typically considered an 'imaginary fetish', as fulfilling them, in reality, is both difficult and illegal. Others think of it as a mutual, erotic and consensual activity with no injury to the sexual partners involved - in that case, it is not considered a form of vore. Examples of this well known twisting of the word vore are the 'genital vore' scenarios, such as unbirthing, also known as female genital vore or vaginal vore, and “vorginal”, which involves a character(s) 'consumed' via the vagina and taking refuge in the womb, which is simply a reverse birth. This incorrect use of the word vore is now commonplace. īeing a fantasy, any orifice may be thought of as capable of vore, but it's really just adding a body part to the word vore. Most vorarephiles describe themselves as being ' prey' - based on how animals are considered to be prey for other animals who are in a higher chain position - while those who actually do the eating in the fantasies, are referred to as a 'pred' (derived from the word predator). The term vorarephile describes someone who enjoys vore.

The word is derived from the Latin vorare (to 'swallow' or 'devour') and the Ancient Greek φιλία ( philia, 'love').

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