I don't believe your assertion that those who were in those relationships and grew up to have a sexual attraction to boys would not have grown up to have an attraction to boys even without those experiences.

Look around the bl boards and see for yourself. Estimates say somewhere between 1 in 6 to 1 in 10 boys are "molested" in their lifetime. How many of us here and in other bl boards had sexual encounters with adults as children?

Now, I haven't taken a survey to find out. But just in the first quarter of the first page of this forum we have 14 different people involved. If only two of them had such relationships, then that's a 1 in 7 ratio which is in line with what would be expected in a non-bl forum.

The human brain is notorious for being really bad at telling odds. This is because our brains are wired to see patterns, thus we wind up seeing them even where none exist.