If psychoanalysts were wrong about our obsession with the phallus, cock vore pornography wouldn’t exist. Instead, fan-drawn illustrations of people being swallowed by a penis as if it were a bloated anaconda whose prey remains whole in its body are more popular than ever. We don’t just desire possession of the phallus, symbolic or literal; we want to be consumed by it. We want the phallus, or rather, our relationship with our partner, to absorb us entirely.
Robin’s Performance (Artist: KinksterSlyt) [Cock Vore] [Soft Vore] [M/?] [Same Size] [Femboy] from CockVore
The vore genre has steadily increased over the last two decades. Broadly, vore refers to the desire to eat someone or be eaten, typically whole. Though the fetish can intersect with cannibalistic fantasies, vore generally involves the survival of the person being eaten, who remains conscious inside the belly. Cock vore, then, involves a person being consumed by a penis, entering through the urethral meatus and remaining somewhere within the shaft.
The r/CockVore subreddit is one active locus for the fetish, and currently has 7,700 subscribers. In 2019, it only had around 1,500, doubling with each year since. Among both vore and cock vore porn, innumerable other fetishes are found: Much of it is hentai-adjacent, probably just because it requires illustration to be portrayed. Furries, futa (short for futanari, a term referencing someone with both a penis and a vagina or a woman with a penis), dragons, orcs, elves and countless characters from animated shows or games (you can find a video of Bowsette swallowing up Princess Peach with her dick, for example) have been given the cock vore treatment.
[Futa/Multiple][Fatal] Cumify by OrcasAndDragons from CockVore
But what does any of it mean? As with any kink, it’s likely both absent of meaning and loaded with it. Plenty of its stans may be enticed by the pure novelty of it all, its images portraying something beyond the realm of physical reality. For some, it may represent the exhaustion of other, simpler pornographic genres — the literal phallus lacks the erotic power it once had, and so people imagine a new form of the phallus entirely.
Like inflation porn or fetishes of being lodged inside a woman’s womb, being eaten by a giant penis seems like the ultimate form of consumptive horniness. Each involves being completely absorbed by a partner, becoming one with them. For those outside the fetish, it may indeed seem a bit strange on its surface. At its core, though, its themes of desire and bodily unity feel almost universal. Much of intercourse as it’s most commonly known involves the basic act of being inside someone or having someone inside of you. Cock vore, then, is the imagining of the ultimate physical manifestation of this.
Maybe cock vore is romantically sweet. Maybe it’s just niche kinky filth. Perhaps when it comes to being swallowed by a monster dick, these two are one in the same.
Magdalene Taylor
Magdalene Taylor is a staff writer at MEL. She covers internet culture, sex and the online adult industry. She lives in Brooklyn but is from God's Country, Western Massachusetts.
