what is the age of consent in ohio?
Jacob Sullum|Jun. 28, 2013 4:16 pm. This week the Ohio House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill ostensibly aimed at fighting human trafficking that makes it a crime to solicit a legal act: sex with someone who is 16 or 17 years old. The age of consent in Ohio is 16. Yet under H.B. 130, a 20-year-old who asks a 16-year-old to have sex with him, or a 21-year-old who does the same with a 17-year-old, thereby commits a fifth-degree felony, punishable by six to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine. He also has to register as a sex offender.