"Turner never troubles himself or the reader with questions about Miller’s emotional and financial dependency on women. Miller was obsessed with masculinity but felt no need to support himself or the women in his life. Turner sympathizes with the Miller who must sell his well-cut suits on the streets of Paris for a fraction of their worth, but is apparently indifferent to the fact that June was selling her body on his behalf… It never occurred to him that no matter how poor a man is, he can always buy a poorer woman for sex… Miller the renegade wanted his body slaves like any other capitalist — and as cheaply as possible… The question is not art versus pornography or sexuality versus censorship or any question about achievement. The question is: Why do men revel in the degradation of women?"
— Jeanette Winterson via OMG
