Open Social Resource Library
Welcome to our one-of-a-kind community library! Here you’ll find a curated selection of media, resources, and expert perspectives on all things polyamory and ethical non-monogamy. Check out our OS Picks for a shortlist of our all-time favs or take your first deep dive with our Starter Kit. We hope you find these insightful and inspiring. Got any recommendations you’d like to see here? Please send them to opensocial🙂 on Discord. Thoughts and feedback are welcome in the comments.
Curated with love in NYC by the Open Social team and community
Settling with one person isn't the only way: The chart, designed in 2010 by polyamory and BDSM activist Franklin Veaux and recently shared by sex researcher and New York University professor Zhana Vrangalova, demonstrates how much more complicated and nuanced the options are. "It's a great reminder that there are different strokes for different folks and no one relationship constellation that works from everyone," Vrangalova told Mic.
Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
What is the history of nonbinary folks? What are the differences between genderqueer, gender fluid, and enby people? We’ve got you covered.
A Modern Love column that’s well worth a read. “Our contract isn’t infallible, or the solution to every problem. But it acknowledges that we each have desires that deserve to be named and recognized.”
In this reported op-ed, writer Elly Belle explores the new Gossip Girl’s approach to polyamory by unpacking the dynamics between characters Audrey, Aki, and Max. Spoilers ahead.
About one in five Americans have engaged in some sort of consensual non-monogamy, or CNM, in their lifetimes — it's about as common as owning a cat, researchers say. The ways that CNM emphasizes communication can be instructive for singles as well as people in other kinds of relationships. The process of differentiation — or knowing who you are and how you're different from your partner — is another big factor in CNM that can help just about everyone.
ARE marriages today better or worse than they used to be?
Courts, lawmakers or both in least 12 U.S. states have said that some children can have more than two parents, though there are differences in the details of what that means. There’s no comprehensive list of three-parent cases. But here are some examples.
Legal Protections for People in Polyamorous Relationships
The author of “The Polyamorists Next Door” shares new developments in a changing social landscape.
Having multiple partners can mean more pleasure, but it’s not always easy.
Scandals be damned. The goal of marriage, argues Dan Savage — devoted husband, proud father, sex columnist — should be stability.
Starting a family with more than two parents can present legal and social pitfalls. Here’s how some parents are making it work.
It’s the summer of love, and a dating app for the curious is set to redefine what we look for in a partner – or partners. Its progressive new CEO, Ana Kirova, explains how its spirit of openness and experimentation will affect not just our relationships, but how we live our lives
A series of personal questions used by the psychologist Arthur Aron to explore the idea of fostering closeness through mutual vulnerability.
Have you heard that statistic that half of all marriages will end in divorce? It’s wrong. Even if that many marriages ever did disintegrate at one point, they don’t now. Divorce is on the decline and has been since the 1980s in America (when that 50% divorce statistic took hold). Experts now put your chances of uncoupling at about 39% in the U.S. This sounds like such promising news. Families are sticking together! But in practice, this does not mean more people are living happily ever after.
We are nearing a time when there will be more unmarried adults in the United States than married ones, a development with enormous consequences for how we define family and adulthood in general, as well as how we structure taxation and benefits.
After a scoffed-at but successful pop ethnography of Park Avenue, she turns to the topic of infidelity.
A dating and pleasure podcast featuring two metamours. Learn to date better, play harder and love deeper with a sex & dating writer and relationship coach, who happen to share the same boyfriend.
Non-Monogamy Help is a relationship advice podcast for people in non-monogamous or polyamorous relationships. With the help of a therapist with over a decade of experience, your host Lola Phoenix, answers the questions your questions about rules, hierarchies, unicorns and more.
Non-monogamy is not for everyone, but maybe you are curious about it. Could it be right for you? How do non-monogamous couples deal with jealousy? I was curious myself, and the more I asked, the more I became surprised by this unexplored topic. In Polycurious I have casual and intimate conversations with non-monogamous couples, sex and relationship experts, friends, and even people who tried polyamory and realized it wasn’t for them. This podcast is for the polycurious, whether you have explored non-monogamy or not.