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

NYU prof, speaker, and consultant helping people make smarter decisions about sex & love.

Polyamory Peer Support - Resources and toolkits for all forms of non-monogamy

Lola Jean is a Sex Educator, Fetish Wrestler, headmistress of 7 Days of Domination, and World Record Holder for Volume Squirting (solo.) providing the No Frills Sex Education we both need and deserve. Lola brings a refreshing understanding to sex, sexuality, and kink to push individuals past what they think they are capable of. 

A network of unaffiliated, independently practicing therapeutic service providers in New York City who are sex-positive, affirmative, and have expertise related to issues that kink, poly, consensually non-monogamous, trans, gender non-conforming, and/or LGBQ-identified individuals face. The collaborative was created in 2014 by Dulcinea Pitagora, PhD, LCSW, CST to address the lack of openly affirmative support to the communities they have been a part of and a mentor in for many years.

Love, Kink & Alt Relationship Coach

I'm a sex educator who works with adults to unlearn the harmful myths we learned when we were younger.

It’s time for the talks. Sex Positive Families provides the education and resources that help families raise sexually healthy children.

ARE marriages today better or worse than they used to be?

Niki Davis-Fainbloom (MA) is recognized as one of NYC’s most adept sexuality and relationship experts. Niki has been featured in numerous publications, facilitated education workshops worldwide, and is an innovative sex and relationship coach. The goal of her work is to give people the skills to have more satisfying romantic and sexual relationships. She uses scientifically backed research, practical instructions, and a pinch of humor to help folks talk about sex, boost their sexual confidence, and increase their pleasure.

The author of “The Polyamorists Next Door” shares new developments in a changing social landscape.

Casey, LCPC, is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist who combines evidence-based research, queer affirming care, and pleasure activism to cultivate powerful relationships.

Writer and Ethical Non-Monogamy Resource

Polyamory & non-monogamy digital creator

Relationship, Sex & Mental Health Therapist, Writer & Educator

Pro-black polyam education. https://www.marjanilane.com/

Author. Essayist. Sex-Positive Content Creator

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.

Personal Coach specializing in Non-Monogamy, Polyam Educator, Speaker, Teacher