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Confidence votes 42. The age of sexual consent in Georgia is 16. While it is not legal to have sex if you are not at least 16 years old, it is also illegal to have sex unless you are married in Georgia. It's called the fornication law and is a misdemeanor, and yes, people have been recently charged with it.
Since Hawaii raised its age of consent from 14 to 16 in 2001, all 50 states recognize 16 as a minimum age of consent, with more than half of states approving 16 as the legal age. For a long time, though, the age of consent for same-sex couples was notably higher than for heterosexual couples in some statesâand in some cases, it was entirely illegal.