Alternative spellings

• voraphilia, voreaphilia (probably by influence from the clipped form “vore”)

Noun

1. A fetish, chiefly practiced by role-playing, involving the devouring of or being devoured by another person or creature—whether live and whole ("soft vore"), or with gore or killing, and possible cooking as food ("hard vore"), which is rarer.

Quotations

• 1998, Karl Xydexx Jorgensen, in alt.fan.furry http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/msg/1a213152a9bb5836?dmode=source&hl=en

  Ooh, vorarephilia. What's eating me? A big wolfy, prolly. I'm everyone's favorite chew-toy.

• 1999, Kevin Alexander Cosmic, in alt.fan.vore http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.vore/msg/b0833972db5377ca?dmode=source&hl=en

  A place to discuss vorarephilia... Why, I am right on topic here, my kind of place, and not even any competing predators to snatch my prey away while I play with it, harrr harrr harrrr!

• 2004, Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope 2 July http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040702.html

  Vore (short for vorarephilia) is a code word for a sexual interest in things eating other things.