When religiosity among college students was measured by Faulkner and DeJong's 5-D Scale of Religiosity" and the Reiss scale was used to measure permissiveness, the expected stronger relationship between religiosity and permissiveness in groups with traditions of low sexual permissiveness than in groups with traditions of high sexual permissiveness was not observed in four groups which were so dichotomized. These findings are basically consistent with those reported by Heltsley and Broderick. (Author)