Poverty porn, also known as pornography of poverty,[1] development porn, famine porn,[2] or stereotype porn,[3][4] has been defined as "any type of media, be it written, photographed or filmed, which exploits the poor's condition in order to generate the necessary sympathy for selling newspapers, increasing charitable donations, or support for a given cause".[5][6] It also suggests that the viewer of the exploited protagonists is motivated by gratification of base instincts.[7] It is also a term of criticism applied to films that objectify people in poverty for the sake of entertaining a privileged audience.[8][9][10]
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