Exactly so. We must never, ever forget that back in the 1960s and 70s when all sorts of social changes were being pushed through, many of them making life better, there were other ideas under serious consideration that either did make life worse for many or came perilously close to it.
First example: 'free love' - sex outside marriage no longer regarded as shameful. A good thing on the whole, but it made a lot of men and boys feel even more entitled than they already did to sex from others who were not always willing or able to consent.
Second example: Paedophile Information Exchange being taken very seriously indeed by some progressive organisations run by people so open-minded their brains had fallen out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26352378
The Paedophile Information Exchange was affiliated to the National Council for Civil Liberties - now Liberty - in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But how did pro-paedophile campaigners operate so openly?
A gay rights conference backs a motion in favour of paedophilia. The story is written up by a national newspaper as "Child-lovers win fight for role in Gay Lib".
It sounds like a nightmarish plotline from dystopian fiction. But this happened in the UK. The conference took place in Sheffield and the newspaper was the Guardian. The year was 1975.
...PIE was formed in 1974. It campaigned for "children's sexuality". It wanted the government to axe or lower the age of consent. It offered support to adults "in legal difficulties concerning sexual acts with consenting 'under age' partners". The real aim was to normalise sex with children.
Journalist Christian Wolmar remembers their tactics. "They didn't emphasise that this was 50-year-old men wanting to have sex with five-year-olds. They presented it as the sexual liberation of children, that children should have the right to sex," he says.