If there's any 17-year-old male who wouldn't jump at the opportunity to bed an attractive woman a few years older, I don't think I've ever met him. That heavily colors my opinion of this situation.
Sorry bud, but that is the daftest statement I have ever heard. Also, a large part of the problem of why male survivors have such a hard time coming forward for help nevermind justice. It's a self-fiullfilling prophecy, and Uwe (as a lawyer well versed in the rules of logic/rhetoric), can tell you exactly what logical phallusy [sic] that is.
Not everyone, for various reasons, is ready for sex at 17, even if they think they want it, it can turn out to be problematic afterwards.
I'm also a bit mistified that Uwe seems to think that if his son did have any issues (not saying he does, mind, just if) that daddy would be the first to know. I doubt most of us told our dads shit, especially if it made us look less strong or manly to do so.
Were the gender roles reversed how would we all feel about this?
Ding Ding Ding!
I also think a few of us have some very thick rose-colored glasses on when remebering how mature we were at the age of 17. It is also quite daft to assume everyone's experience is going to be the same as those colored memories. Great, nothing bad or weird (sexually) happened to you at that age (or, as an obvious example, even younger, which made you not ready for it just yet at 17, cuz you, being the manly man you were expected to be, didn't tell nobody and so hadn't worked through it yet) so it was all great and you were great, but that doesn't mean it was like that for everyone else, or that you were actually that great at all in the first place actually.
Everything seems to be suffocated under a blanket of new prudery these days while at the same time porn is omnipresent.
It's not prudishness, it's an attempt to develop a more universal baseline level of empathy. And no, the copious simulated rape/incest/Teen porn catagories that top the most popular lists on your favorite porn aggregator site are not helping.