Molly-houses at that time were evidently and intrinsically related to since they gathered those who were called sodomites being a capital offence, so most of the information concerning molly-houses and the community around them is available through an indirect form, that is, mostly through newspaper reports and the accounts given during the Old Bailey trials relating to sexual offences, such as "sodomy, assault with sodomitical intent" and "keeping a brothel", or sometimes the ones related to theft cases (for example, in cases with men caught stealing during a sexual encounter).