New "Adult" Distributor Brings Vorephilia to DVD

Can Goldfish Swallowing Really Be Sexy?

In the late 1930s and the 1940s, an intriguing fad swept through American college campuses. After starting at Harvard, of all places, the act of swallowing live goldfish became a staple of college life for decades thereafter. Now, almost 70 years later, the fad lives on in a somewhat more, uhm, mature format.

GirlsDelicious.com, a new "adult" DVD distributor, is attempting to bring the act of swallowing live fish into mainstream culture. Based in Orlando, Florida, the company draws on the enormous student populations of nearby University of Central Florida, University of South Florida and University of Florida to supply a steady stream of fresh faces to their endeavor. Capitalizing on this talent, the company has made an array of sensual goldfish and item swallowing videos available through either instant online download or delivery of a more traditional adult DVD.

The word "adult," though, may be somewhat of a misnomer. Although the company's website offers their own brand of traditional skin flicks, the "vorephilia" videos feature no nudity and no explicit sexual acts. Instead, the success of the DVDs relies on what the company calls, "the most erotic, most sensuous acts a girl is capable of performing." This act, the simple act of swallowing, is one that attracts fans of the vorephilia fetish from around the globe.

Vorephilia, defined as an esoteric fetish in which the viewer enjoys seeing live creatures or inanimate objects swallowed, and often shortened to simply "vore," is certainly nothing new. Semi-erotic commercial advertisements have depicted sensuous women dropping everything from fruits to candies into their lipstick-covered mouths for decades, and erotic artwork featuring women with various items in their mouths dates back to at least the middle ages. "Fear Factor" generated tremendous buzz when attractive youngsters chowed down on various insects and other inedibles. Both young men and women have been swallowing things for fun, money and on dares for well over half a century. Is the material, though, suitable for distribution through adult entertainment channels?