The exploitation of women depicted by her experiences in the exotic dancing industry, especially in the upscale venues, illustrates the degree to which women are subject to societal rejection and to duplicitous moral values. Her rejection and castigation by her mother provides even more of an insight into the hypocrisies that pertain to social values when it comes to women and sexuality, precisely because her mother is a famous advocate of and sympathizer with the plight of street prostitutes at the farthest end of the spectrum of sexual deviance according to contemporary social values. Nevertheless, when it comes to her daughter instead of strangers, she is utterly incapable of transcending her own prejudices, preconceptions, and her selfish and egocentric preoccupation with her own reputation in the same society whose unfair treatment of street prostitutes...

The profound irony of this hypocrisy is underscored both by the fact that Julia's mother is a feminist who supposedly espouses the philosophy of "freedom, justice and equality for all" as well as by the early scene of Julia's reading Free to Be You and Me together with her mother.
Both Betty Page and Julia Query represent innocence and illustrate the complete hypocrisy in American society during roughly the same era. In both cases, the same society that rejected them for their involvement in sexually provocative and titillating entertainment also provided an endless demand for those same talents. Ultimately, each of them was a victim (although in very different ways) of moral duplicity within their own families as well as of unjustifiable social and gender-based sexual prejudices and definitions of morality by her society.