A think of the children lobbyist is commenting on an apparent "link between child abuse and bestiality". There doesn't seem to be meaningful evidence of one, and it's hard to stretch it that way.
Also, why is he so worried about anal sex, bestiality, and "ritual abuse"? o.O
1) Anecdotal cases. A more shocking case is more likely to pique interest than a more mundane one.
2) Definitions can be poor. Someone might conflate content which isn't actual child abuse with content that is. In fact, this very lobbyist is known to do this, and encourages others to do so.
3) In one case, the grounds were that someone "accessed" both. This doesn't tell me a whole lot other than that someone uses the Internet a lot. ???
4) While bestiality is frowned upon, as is (real) content of it (real, unless, we want to start burning the furries at the stake), it's probably also far less likely for a government to investigate (unless something else is involved).
That probably contributes to a selection effect, that is they're more likely to skew towards an overlap among those cases catalogued by government, than they would out in the wild.
5) Conflating physically acting with viewing.
6) Even if there was a correlation, it doesn't mean it is causal. It could be biological third factors which contribute to both in those particular cases*.
7) Intuitively, if someone is willing to abuse a child, the other might not be a big deal to them? The same would apply to viewing content.
If so, that would be "causal" for some subset of people but it would be causal in the opposite direction. If we're looking to intuitive theories, it's not clear why I have to hypothesize how someone might be pure evil.
8) Engaging in and viewing bestiality can be explained by "zoophilia"** (not that I'm saying that they necessarily will do that).
Why this is troublesome:
1) Speculation leads to fundamental misunderstandings and misinformation. It's simpler to just debunk it at the start.
I don't understand why someone can't discuss the actual issues at hand, and instead, have to work to make every crime look like someone is pure evil in every single way.
2) It leads to censorship, including of fictional content. I have seen cases of this reported in the past.
