Amber Christensen writes about the desire to connect with a desired person or object in Maya Ben David's We've Met Before. Christensen invokes Japanese anime culture, including hentai, and a community, vorarephillia ("vore" for short), which builds sexual relationships through the fantasy of swallowing submissive partners. Ben David also uses a Biblical figure, Jonah, who survives being engulfed by a whale, to emphasize this urge to connect and become one with the other.