Standarized tests and a questionnaire were administered to females (303) and males (95) enrolled in sex education courses at fourteen colleges in Connecticut Missouri New Jersey and New York. Findings included: For females: [(1)] premarital sexual permissiveness decreased with age; [(2)] Catholics were least permissive Jews were most permissive; [(3)] as church attendance decreased premarital sexual permissiveness increased; [(4)] as the frequency of dating increased premarital sexual permissiveness increased; [(5)] persons having been in psychotherapy had more permissive premarital sexual attitudes. (authors)