Attitudes toward homosexuals and evolutionary theory: The role of evidence

Abstract

Archer (this issue) contends that seduction by homosexual pedophiles is largely a result of media exaggeration and that xenophobia explains the data I reported on attitudes toward homosexuals (Gallup 1995). However, a cursory review of the evidence shows that the incidence of child molestation by homosexual males is much higher than Archer implies, and when the specific findings on attitudes are considered, xenophobia fails to provide an adequate account of the way people react to homosexuals.