Reply #84: And why would they develop that attraction in the first place?

[moriah]

I definitely don't buy the NAMBLA idea that it's a "perfectly natural" thing. I also pray to God it's not actually genetic, because my dad molested my sister -- I'd hate it if I had those genes. It does run in families, though... most were abused themselves as children, by adults. Dad didn't target my sister until she started to enter puberty -- when he was 12, a middle-aged lady in the neighborhood invited him inside and had sex with him. He compared notes later on with the rest of his buddies, and found out that she had introduced all of them to sex. He didn't see it as abuse, but he then went on to have sex with a classmate of his who was 11, as well as what he did to my sister. A person who was abused at an even younger age would have a very good reason to be afraid of adults, and not see them as attractive -- and to find the safety of an nonthreatening child attractive.