Jacqueline Gold set up a sex shop in the Strand Palace Hotel, London. She was given £40,000 by her father to start this network of party givers. But she got into trouble for doing that because it was seen as unlicensed sex work. After one particular vibrator called the rampant rabbit was featured on Sex and the City, her vibrator sales went up to 2.5 million a year. It took her a long time to get over this abuse in her childhood. The setting up of the stores and the teaching of the Maxim that sex could be a great deal of fun was her way of getting over the misery she'd suffered. And she felt very sure