The dielectric constant and loss of 1-phenyl-1-, 1-phenyl-2-, 2-phenyl-2-, and 3-phenyl-l-propanol have been measured as a function of temperature forf< 0.5 MHz. The equilibrium polarization depends markedly on the proximity of the phenyl and hydroxyl groups, apparently as a steric factor and not because of any specific OH-phenyl interaction. Dielectric relaxation in these liquids can be described in terms of overlapping Debye regions but for the most sterically hindered species the regions overlap so closely that the Davidson-Cole skewed-arc function becomes a more useful description. Activation energies depend on the degree of steric hindrance; this suggests that H-bond breaking is not the rate determining step in the relaxation mechanism