I think society has a pretty skewed idea of what natural attraction is. For example, it's often considered pedophilia for a 40-year old man to find a 16-year old girl attractive. Why wouldn't he? He probably found such girls attractive when he was that age, so it's not like his attention to that sort of detail is going to up and change later on in life. Of course, acting on it is another story... and another issue aside.

However, there is a very big difference when it comes to much younger people. I don't really understand how an 8-year old could be considered attractive by any means. They're just... not physically developed. But if a person does indeed feel attraction to 8-year olds, then I think it would be more for psychological reasons, and not necessarily something related to biological orientation. I really have no clue, though. A lot of people suggest that pedophilia must be a hard-wired trait, given that it's so difficult to "treat." But as far as my opinion is concerned, I think most of the difficulty in dealing with pedophilia is that too many people have strong feelings toward the issue, and it would be difficult to set that aside for the sake of making a scientific effort to understand it. i.e., it's easier to say that pedophiles are simply sick rather than actually studying the psychology of it.