My guess without doing any etymology research is that the term fell out of fashion around the same time it came to be used in the sense of "child grooming", and hasn't been widely used in the last decade or two, so many people are likely encountering it in the wild for the first time.
My guess without doing any etymology research is that the term fell out of fashion around the same time it came to be used in the sense of "child grooming", and hasn't been widely used in the last decade or two, so many people are likely encountering it in the wild for the first time.