A girl lies on her side with two contact mics attached to her stomach. She announces in the video’s title that there is an entire rotisserie chicken inside of her, which she is going to be digesting. The contact mics pick up the sounds of grumbling and growling. Although this is not inherently sexual, the comments are filled with people timestamping the video with the best sounds or the times when the stomach is loudest as well as people lamenting that they would like to be eaten by the person. Mostly, the latter comments are focused on wanting to be inside of the stomach. On various porn sites and fetish forums, people swallow gummy bears whole and film the digestion process with a microphone attached, people who endeavor to eat the most amount of food possible and then listen to it digest. While the community appears to have much overlap with those who are into vore (being swallowed), they are specifically attracted to the sounds of stomachs, and how stomachs digest or hold objects.
While looking at different kinds of auralism, or concepts which have auralist potential, I stumbled across a short clip of a woman swallowing a hundred marbles and using an internal microphone, as well as contact mics, to record the sound of them sloshing and clinking inside of her as they roll about. At one point, she rolls onto her side and the marbles tip over themselves inside of her creating a very loud sound. Here, she is conducting a kind of ‘object vore’, but one where people can imprint their own ideas and subjectivity onto the sounds. As has been prevalent throughout my research for Voice Pigs, sound is being used as a method of fetish, and in particular a form of paraphilia.
For Voice Pigs, as I have constantly reiterated, the piece is focused on auralism and the ways in which someone can be controlled by sound alone. Digestion fetishists became interesting to think about because of the specificity of the sounds that are erotic to them. I would have loved to interview someone with this fetish, but they are difficult to get into contact with and much of the content I found online is from years ago. However, when conducting the work for Voice Pigs I wanted to have a wide range of sound fetishism to draw from and inform me. Digestion fetishes are strange, and while I struggle to understand the appeal of the sounds I find it fascinating how these everyday sounds can provide such a strong allure.