Do you think they backpedaling a bit in "Nice and Easy"?

Okay, so I just finished up the episode "Nice and Easy" and during the scene where Blanche is talking to Lucy in Ed's apartment, her main advice is that she needs to like herself so that she can respect herself. Prior to that, Lucy had called out Blanche saying she wasn't a saint, and Blanche had told Lucy she always enjoyed the company of men, but because she likes them, not because she wants them to like her.

At the end of the episode, Blanche tells the girls that she didn't realize how much Lucy had been looking up to her and that she thinks the message stuck when she told Lucy that she exaggerated her escapades. Of course she tells the girls that maybe that's true, maybe it's not in terms of her activities, but it kinda got me thinking: did they back pedal a little here? The ending makes it seem like the lesson Lucy learned is that she shouldn't be so sexually active, but that's not remotely what Blanche was trying to impart on her. The apartment scene is great because it's not Blanche passing judgement, she's trying to help Lucy realize that maybe her reasons for jumping between men so quickly isn't a good one. And then the end of the episode seems to hammer home that Blanche was a bad role model for Lucy and had to iron it out by lying and convincing Lucy that she wasn't actually as active as she led everyone to believe.

What do you all think? Was it a bit of a back pedal, or was it maybe just building on what they had established during the apartment scene? I keep going back and forth and can't quite land on what the "moral" should be.