Colorados dating laws set the age of consent at 17 years old. People who are 16 years old or younger cannot legally consent to sex.

Can you date a minor in Colorado?

The legal age of consent in Colorado is seventeen (17) years old. But under the close-in-age exception (Romeo and Juliet law), a 15- or 16-year old can consent to penetrative sex with someone less than 10 years older, and minors 14 and younger can consent to penetrative sex with someone less than four years older.

Can a 21 year old date a 17 year old in Colorado?

Colorado also provides exemptions for specified age differences between partners and for marriage. Age of sexual consent. The Colorado age of sexual consent is 17 years old. Colorado law does not criminalize consensual sex when both parties are 17 years old or older.

Is it illegal for a 15 and 18 year old to date in Colorado?

In Colorado, it is illegal for an adult (someone 18 or older) to have sex with a minor (someone younger than 15), even if the sex is consensual. Those who break the law have committed statutory rape.