And more importantly, are they dangerous or just weird?
A vore comic of two My Little Ponies
This week's episode of BuzzFeed's Internet Explorer podcast is all about "vores": The folks who get off on the idea of eating other people.
Vore is the term for the sexual fetish of cannibalism. Or, at least, the online version of it – not real, actual cannibals (of which there have been very few in modern history). Online, this manifests itself mostly as fanfic and fan art on forums like DeviantArt (all links here NSFW, duh) and more intense genre-specific sites like e621, which is mostly furry erotica. Since these are largely drawings or stories, they often veer into fantasy: anthroporphic furries eating each other, human-sized frogs eating naked women, the cartoon dog from Family Guy eating the mother, and many many many iterations of the characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic or Sonic the Hedghog eating each other.
There's fantastical subgenres as well. For some, the fantasy isn't so much about someone dying per se, but the act of being consumed by another person and living inside their stomach. There's a genre of art where the eatee is shown living inside the transparent stomach of the eater. Or unbirthing, where a female character somehow absorbs someone into her stomach through her vagina. Enjoy that one, fans of Freud.
