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Robert G. Beckel sold a Colonial-style home in Bethesda to Steven A. and Elise L. Museles for the list price of $1,195,000. Beckel is a political consultant who ran Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign. Steven Museles, a former partner at the DC law firm Hogan & Hartson, is general counsel for the commercial-finance firm CapitalSource. The house has seven bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms. From http://www.washingtonian.com/thismonth/class/homes.html.

Here's the relevant Maryland Statutes:

§ 553. Sodomy generally.
Every person convicted of the crime of sodomy shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than ten years.

§ 554.
Every person who is convicted of taking into his or her mouth the sexual organ of any other person or animal, or who shall be convicted of placing his or her sexual organ in the mouth of any other person or animal, or who shall be convicted of committing any other unnatural or perverted sexual practice with any other person or animal, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned in jail or in the house of correction or in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding ten years, or shall be both fined and imprisoned within the limits above prescribed in the discretion of the court.
And in any indictment for the commission of any of the acts, hereby declared to be offenses, it shall not be necessary to set forth the particular unnatural or perverted sexual practice with the commission of which the defendant may be charged, nor to set forth the particular manner in which said unnatural or perverted sexual practice was committed, but it shall be sufficient if the indictment set forth that the defendant committed a certain unnatural and perverted sexual practice with a person or animal, as the case may be.

§ 431. Prostitution or assignation.
(a) Prohibition.- A person may not knowingly:
(1) Engage in prostitution or assignation by any means
(2) Keep, set up, occupy, maintain, or operate a building, structure, or conveyance for prostitution or assignation;
(3) Allow a building, structure, or conveyance owned or under the person's control to be used for prostitution or assignation;
(4) Allow or agree to allow a person into a building, structure, or conveyance for prostitution or assignation; or
(5) Procure or solicit or offer to procure or solicit for prostitution or assignation.
(b) Violation; penalties.- A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $500 or both.