Goodness, I didn't know we had so many puritans on moviechat. lol...
If you re-watch the entire scene, I would have to say the answer is #2. He just doesn't want to get arrested for doing it with someone that's underage. No morals clause in my view. But I am a bit taken aback by the choice of words in your OP, Heisenberg. Are we to believe that "any" girl that offers sex to a guy that happens to be older than she is is a "skank" or a "trashy little girl", or would that be just a Manson girl? You might need to clarify this one. I never quite understood this line of thinking that some males have from time to time.
Any man that would view this girl as a "skank" is ignorant. Not to mention, it's a really old way of viewing sexuality. It's usually just puritans or hardcore religious nuts that think like this...
It was kind of funny how Cliff was viewing her in a somewhat sexual manner when he saw her on the side of the road but turned her down when she offered it. This is just something you see in movies. Guys don't turn girls down unless they just don't want to get arrested. Plus, I'm not sure what the age of consent laws were back in the 60s. I doubt they were as harsh as they are today. Not likely he would have gone to jail for just getting a BJ from her.
However, I can see Cliff proceeding carefully after Pussycat tells him where she's living. Once Cliff knows this girl is living at Spahn Ranch, he made the decision to become a "detective" and try to find out what's going on there. The fact that he used to work there made him curious. So, this could have also influenced his decision to turn her down but nothing in the movie says he thought she was a "skank" or that QT was taking a jab at Polanski.
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