The sizes of the consumer and/or victim can vary as well. On the other hand, there is the less commonly seen hard vore, which consists of the victim being chewed and torn apart by the consumer, followed by a more gruesome depiction of digestion. If the victim is kept safe (also known as endo vore), the victim can eventually be let out by regurgitation, whereas if digestion happens, the victim is usually killed, but may be magically reformed. Typically when the victim is consumed orally, most of the time it is portrayed as soft vore the victim is swallowed whole and enters the stomach of the victim, then either is kept there safely, or gets digested inside.

There are several variations to the fantasy, often changing the way the victim is ingested. Apart from macrophilia, vore fantasies often have themes of BDSM, microphilia, pregnancy fetishism, anthropomorphized animals, and sexual cannibalism. In some cases, vorarephilia may be described as a variation of macrophilia and may combine with other paraphilias. Expressions can involve humans, animals, dragons, giant snakes, and other creatures, real or fictional. Vore is most often enjoyed through pictures, stories, videos, and video games, and it can appear in mainstream media. Since vorarephilic fantasies cannot usually be acted out in reality, they are often expressed in stories or drawings as well as AI characters on the Internet. Usually, vorarephilic fantasies involve a consumer (sometimes called a predator or pred) ingesting one or multiple victims (sometimes called prey) in some way. The word vorarephilia is derived from the Latin vorare (to 'swallow' or 'devour'), and Ancient Greek φιλία ( philía, ' love'). Vore fantasies are separated from sexual cannibalism because the living victim is normally swallowed whole. Vorarephilia (often shortened to vore) is a paraphilia characterized by the erotic desire to be consumed by, or to personally consume, another person or creature, or an erotic attraction to the process of eating in general practice. An example of manga-style vorarephilic artwork

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