In 1642, Edward Michell and Edward Preston were charged and convicted, in the Plymouth Colony, of committing sodomy. However this was not the only sexual exploit that these two men were involved in. During the trial, it came to light that Michell had been fornicating with a woman, while Preston had attempted to coerce another man to sodomy. In a bizarre twist, the woman that Michell was fornicating with, Lydia Hatch, was also having a incestuous affair with her brother, Jonathan. Michell, Preston, and the Hatchs were all publicly whipped. Once again the death penalty was not applied.36
It was in this same year (1642), Governor William Bradford declared that sex crimes were rampant in the colony:

I am not related to these people, just passing on this information, which comes from an essay titled "Wickedness Breaks Forth." The link for the site is listed below.
Joyce
http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1999-2000/Chehardy.htm