Vore prohibition: Why?

[Dutchboy51]

Vore is my fetish.

For those among you who might not understand what vore actually is, vore is a fetish in which folks get turned on by fantasizing about people being eaten or eating other people. Basically, vore comes in two flavors "soft" and "hard." Hard vore is violent, sometimes bloody, and not at all welcomed by the meal itself. It's terrifying. Soft vore is voluntary, pleasurable, and enjoyed by the consumed. Cannibalism is a kind of vore, but not my kind.

I like hard vore. It turns me on and I write about it.

I understand that Literotica prohibits most vore, especially "hard" vore and I have had a number of stories rejected because of their vore content. My question is "Why?" What is there about this particular fetish which makes it worse than rape, incest, sexual sadism- you name it? What pushes this fetish over the red line?

Is it the terror? There are lots of stories on this site in which women are victimized and their terror is described in great detail.

Is it the death of the victim? Again, what happens to the victims of vampires, werewolves and other horror staples? People die in fiction all the time. Ask Agatha Christie.

In the case of hard vore, is it the fact that the victims don't want to be eaten? This site has an entire section dedicated to "reluctance and non-consent." In erotic fiction it is commonplace for one of the characters not to enjoy her experience.

Is it the fear that those even more disturbed than me might seek somehow to replicate these terrible acts? Does anyone recall a single real world news story about murders committed by giant snakes, spiders or gelatinous aliens, 'cause I don't. This fetish is completely fictional. It's horror fiction, period. It cannot be replicated in real life.

Monster vore is common in the film world. Jabba, the Rancor, and the Saarlac, eat people, some of them chains and bikinis, in "Star Wars." Jon Voight becomes snake food in "Anaconda." The list goes on and on and back to the very early days of horror films. Steve McQueen and Jack Nicholson earned their bones in vore horror films.

Is it the sex? Hopefully not on a site called "Literotica."

I'm not trying to be obtuse. I understand completely the prohibitions against pedophilia and other fetishes that are both illegal and subject to copycat behavior in the real world. Of course, that makes total sense to me. The prohibition against vore does not.

So what is it that makes this particular fetish "Literotica non grata?" It's just another totally harmless and very weird sexual fetish. Some guys get off on sexy women in handcuffs and stiletto heels. I get off on women in peril, food chain issues peril. So what? My fetish is weirder than someone who likes to suck women's feet, but only if they're wearing pantyhose? For the life of me I cannot understand why these stories should be prohibited.

Please enlighten.

 

[ElectricBlue]

As Lynn said in your other thread, you need to ask Laurel, the site's owner and the only arbiter of content. It's fairly pointless asking other writers - some might be able to say if their vore stories got over the line, but it's up to Laurel, not any of us, to outline any thresholds.

I suggest you send her a PM, respectfully asking the question. The arguments you put forward in your post are irrelevant - it's Laurel's site, her call on the content she will allow.

 

[Hypoxia]

The LIT site owner and empress is Laurel. She bans snuff, death in sex. She does not think mayhem, dismemberment, or self-destruction are sexy. She rejected my story with an exploded woman until I rewrote with survival. To find how Laurel feels about vore, submit a story and see what happens.