🍆📱Because apparently, what the Global South really needed was British-funded dirty talk — not clean water or working hospitals.

💷 Aid Money, But Make It Moan

In one of the boldest attempts to redefine “foreign aid” since MPs started claiming duck houses on expenses, the UK has reportedly bankrolled a “pleasure-oriented sex chatbot” in Kenya — as part of a £41 million taxpayer-funded scheme. Yes, you read that right. Not sanitation. Not education. Not maternal care.

Chatbot. Sex. Advice. On the UK tab.

According to researchers, the bot — lovingly funded in full post-colonial cringe mode — did basically nothing to improve health outcomes. But hey, at least someone somewhere got a cheeky emoji and a vague whisper of intimacy while waiting for real healthcare to arrive.

Call it “digital aid.” Call it “progressive outreach.” Just don’t call it sane policy.

This is what happens when government departments try to be “sex positive” with someone else’s money. You get a tech solution to a public health crisis that solves neither tech nor health — but definitely hits headlines like a drunken intern in a startup launch party.

🧠 Bureaucracy, But Horny

Was there a strategic health goal? Sort of.

Was there measurable impact? Not really.

Was there accountability? Don’t be ridiculous — this is UK aid funding.

The chatbot — part of a wider sexual health programme — was supposed to be a cutting-edge tool for empowerment and safety. But instead, it delivered vague, often inaccurate advice, while being marketed under the noble banner of “pleasure-first access.” Because nothing says responsible development like turning British taxpayers into unwilling funders of app-based flirtation.

Meanwhile, back in Britain, waiting times for cancer treatment are through the roof, NHS dentists are rarer than unicorns, and school roofs are collapsing — but sure, let’s text Kenya about orgasms. 👏📉

🔥 Aid, or International Embarrassment?

You couldn’t make this up. But they did. And we paid for it.

There’s a difference between modernising aid and turning it into a parody of itself. This isn’t empowerment. It’s a bureaucratic fever dream where buzzwords trump results, and “inclusive access” means throwing cash at apps no one asked for.

If you want to help, fund clinics. Fund clean water. Fund contraception. Don’t send a chatbot to ask someone if they’re “feeling heard in their body.”

🔥 Challenges 🔥

Is this innovation or insanity? Who approved this nonsense? Why are we outsourcing credibility to apps that deliver less than a malfunctioning Alexa? We want your fury, mockery, and insight — in the blog comments, not just Facebook. 🫠💬

👇 Comment. Like. Share with someone who’s been on an NHS waitlist while their taxes were sexting Nairobi.

Top comments go in the next issue. No chatbots were consulted. 🗞️💥

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