Bite the Fruit

Every June, Washington, DC transforms into something electric. The streets fill with music, color, flags, laughter, chosen family, old friends, new flirtations, dancing strangers, and moments of unexpected tenderness. Pride is many things at once: a celebration, a protest, a memorial, a reunion, and for many people, a rare opportunity to feel fully visible. This year, the 2026 Capital Pride celebration runs from June 12–21, with major events taking place throughout the city. Because of preparations surrounding the upcoming U.S. 250th anniversary celebrations, Capital Pride shifted to the third weekend of June this year. Highlights include: Opening Night & Capital...

May 19–26, 2026: A tantric retreat in Makawao, Maui invites participants into a week of breathwork, embodiment, and something called a “full-body energy orgasm”—an experience framed not as sex, but as the expansion of awareness through the body. May 28, 2026: Around the world, activists gather for the International Day of Action for Women’s Health—marching, organizing, and advocating for access to contraception, abortion care, and the fundamental right to make decisions about one’s own body. At first glance, these events have nothing to do with each other. One is quiet. Private. Expensive.The other is loud. Public. Urgent. One takes place...

The Sexiest Thing You Can Do is Know Your Status Let’s start with a simple truth that doesn’t get said nearly enough: Knowing your sexual health status is hot. Not awkward. Not shameful. Not clinical in a cold, fluorescent-light kind of way.Hot—as in confident, responsible, and deeply attractive. April is STI Awareness Month, and at Bite the Fruit, we’re here to do what we do best: make the invisible visible, the uncomfortable approachable, and the science… a little sexier. The Reality Check (Without Killing the Mood) Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are incredibly common—and often completely silent. You can feel amazing,...

Every March, something quietly subversive happens.   While the world obsesses over taxes, basketball brackets, and the first hints of spring, a number of sexual wellness educators and sex-positive organizations recognize March as Sexual Pleasure Month—a time to talk openly about something that affects nearly every adult human being and yet remains oddly difficult to discuss. Pleasure. Not scandal. Not shame. Not titillation. Just pleasure—the biological, psychological, and relational experience that sits at the center of human sexuality. And from a scientific perspective, pleasure is not frivolous. It is core to human health. Research in the fields of sexology, psychology,...

It's About Permission Every February, we are handed a script. It tells us that Valentine’s Day is about romance. About couples. About candlelight and roses and declarations of love that arrive on schedule. But sexual wellness does not follow a calendar. Sexual wellness is not something another person gives you. It is something you inhabit. Valentine’s Day, at its best, is not a celebration of partnership. It is a celebration of permission — permission to feel, to inhabit your body, to experience pleasure without apology, and to recognize yourself as worthy of tenderness. Whether you are partnered, single, grieving, healing, exploring,...