My emphasis: 

What I’m saying is that the views on what should be the age of consent go in and out of fashion. When being ‘socially liberal’ is all the rage, people want to lower it. In the era of #MeToo, people want it raised. Clearly, the motivation of those previously calling for lowering the age of consent is very different. One was for public health reasons, but others such as PIE always lurk in the corner and their reasons are purely evil and exploitative.