I would not be surprised if Matt Gaetz did have sex with a 17 year old girl...
...when he was 17.
I had sex with a 15 year old and probably a 14 year old....
.....when I was a 17 year old sailor, and we made liberty calls in Port Au Prince, Haiti and Ocho Rios, Jamica.
All quite normal for the time. I left those places as clean as a whistle, although I often wonder if I have 52 year old offspring running around one of those islands.