I don’t hear any hidden sexual meaning to the lyrics. Though I see how uncomfortable she is. Especially how short her dress is, being poked and prodded by a dozen unknown grown men. It’s moved up to the matching underwear too much. But wasn’t she so cute. Such a character with an expressive voice and emotive face ☺️
People from a certain generation can’t believe what they called this in Hollywood kiddie burlesque. How when you read her book or interviews you know damn well who her audience was.
Also that generation didn’t believe or want to believe their child was being molested by the relatives or priests!!
The past is never as great as people remember it to be.
My two cents- All our minds are going to dark things because of horror stories we have heard or (hopefully not) experienced. When Shirley started walking down that aisle my first thought was that I hope none of those men were having improper thoughts about her. But what they were doing with this song was in no way sexual. And just because there are horrible people out there doesn’t mean that every man’s interaction with a child is laced in pedophilia.