Well I can say this: You're not alone!

I have seen many vore-based drawings on FurAffinty that have been more or less ruined by the inclusion of a random, unnecessary erection poking you in the eye. Many of the most stylish vore images that I have seen manage to capture the moment without using genitalia as a handicap.

Sadly this trend will continue as the inclusion of pen0r realistically supplies more hit, favorites, and watches.

I would not say it is sad that there will always be inclusion of genitals in vore drawings, becase it's what some people, it just dawned on me that it was totally not my thing.
I love cock vore, but I don't like unnecessary shows of excited genitals and such...

Good to see I'm not alone thought x3

I'm much the same way.. though usually I have it that way since most of my characters.. vore is their sex for the most part, so doing it also gets them rather excited.

From what I see around, most of people have their vorish fetish linked to their sexuality (anybody said femal preds? x3) I'd say that most of them don't understand how can people have their vore fetish NOT linked at all to their sexual preferences (asexual people for instance... and from what I've seen so far, they are very rare).

I still can't imagine how some people go from straight to gay or vice versa when they've liked the same thing for decades (and I know a few) (no they're not bisexual since they stopped liking girls for good xD).

Anyway a wise bear once told me "to each their own" and I am still truly conviced he was right.

Corso.

Yeup, I have and always will think that we each have our own preferences. I just realized how there were really two main different groups in vore. Those who enjoy vore as it is, because it "is" what defines their sexuality. On the other hand, there are those who enjoy vore as a side fetish. 'm not criticizing them. I even envy them, for being able to have a normal sexual life and be able to spice it up with vore.

As I once put it, most people use vore to spice up their sex. I use sex to spice up the vore. Vore first! Always. <3

And I envy those people who are able to spice up their life with vore, or spice up their vore with sex. I am just not into sex at all.

*nods* Takes the mood for it myself. The first and foremost love is vore. Followed by clothing! :D

Hmmm very interesting notation there BBB

From my own angle I started with being a pure unadulterated vore, clean as it were, food for food sake, eat eat eat....I was also far less tolerant as a person, the concept of willing vore was utterly strange to me for example, but over the decade i suppose i've learned about my own urges and slid them in there as part of the story.. I can't deny that the sexual angle slips in as a part of it... however, in my defense.. what has truly infested my vorish nature is the lust for the story that revolves around it..not sure if i can call that a fetish though. The evolution has mitigated my dark side rather alot..

What comes out now is rather than Vore or Sex its about the flow, the story that is crafted between the two partners, I still claim to have vore first, the capstone of it all, followed by domination, and then sexuality, where TF fits in is sorta hard for me to even explain. I view em each as part of my toolbox to better craft a delicious encounter..there are a few other things that are to sappy to get into.

Would it be to glib of me to attribute the change to vore becoming mainstream? Its hardly really exotic anymore.. picked up here and there by a vastly wider array of folks than the prey FA style era(An aside is I do miss the closer nit nature of it when folks had to hunt for folks with the same interest,

anyhow, enough of this ol creative fellows rambling..and just think BBB... i'm the same age as a big gutted hungry ursine.... who would have thought.

Hehehe, I already knew we were of similar age x3

There is no need to relate the sexual part as a dark side. To each their own, I just prefer it, both in my roleplays and in whatever vore I see online, when there is no overuse of genitals.

Well, glad things have evolved on your end and that you developed more flexibility. On my end, I'm afraid I have become more picky about what I do in roleplays :/
Oh well, I'm doing my best to still keep a bit of flexibility, but I prefer to rp with people who seek similar stuff as mine rather than trying to adapt my style to others who don't really share my interests.

Thanks for your analysis lion :)
Burr.