Of course they did, like another poster said, the fireworks symbolized that even if you didn't get the idea from them being naked in bed together. As for why she would have sex with him if she knew she was going to kill herself, I think she just did it as an expression of love and affection because she cared about Harold. I don't think it was very serious to her, she's old and freespirited enough to have engaged in plenty of casual sex in her life, and she probably didn't expect Harold to take it that seriously either. But being so young and inexperienced, he thought there was more too it, it was this huge 'revelation' and he immediately jumps to "we're getting married". It seems pretty clear to me in the movie that Harold loves Maude more/differently than she does him, you can even see it in the way he's always staring at Maude with big puppy dog eyes. She's flattered by the attention from a young man but doesn't quite return it. She's more distant precisely because she knows what's going to happen. And being older, she also knows that he will have plenty more love to come in his life. That's why she advises him early on to let himself get hurt because it's part of living and finally tells him, "Good, now go out and love some more." when he tries to express how deeply he feels (or thinks he feels) about her in the ambulance. Basically, I think Harold grew to think of their relationship as a romance while Maude saw it more as a friendship, one last adventure for herself, and a learning experience for Harold.
In fact, it was supposed to be even more obvious they had sex in the film, but the studio made them cut it:
"2. BUD CORT REFUSED TO DO PUBLICITY IF THE STUDIO DIDNβT GIVE HAL ASHBY CREATIVE CONTROL OVER THE EDIT.
During post-production, Paramount Pictures stripped Ashby of his power to edit the film. Thus, in solidarity with his director, Cort told the filmβs PR team that he wouldnβt do any publicity for the film unless Ashby got his movie back. According to The Guardian, control over the footage was handed back to Ashbyβsave for a kissing scene between Harold and Maude that Paramount head honcho Robert Evans despised.
3. ACTRESS ALI MACGRAW, ROBERT EVANSβ THEN-WIFE, WANTED THE LOVE SCENE BETWEEN HAROLD AND MAUDE TO BE CUT.
Of course, her Paramount boss husband tried to oblige. Ashby furiously objected, saying, βThatβs sort of what the whole movie is about, a boy falling in love with an old woman; the sexual aspect doesnβt have to be distasteful.β About the less-than-explicit scene, Being Hal Ashby author Nick Dawson wrote, βAshby wanted to show the beauty of young and old flesh together, something that he knew the younger generation, the hippies, the heads, the open-minded masses would dig, but Evans said it would repulse most audiences, so it had to go.β In the end, Ashby won by sneaking the footage into the filmβs trailer."
http://mentalfloss.com/article/69546/10-perfectly-paired-facts-about-harold-and-maude
Ashby told Film Quarterly this in 1972:
"Inevitably, "I ran into trouble with Paramount. We had a scene when Harold and Maude started to make love: their kissing becomes more passionate, and they lie back on the bed. We didn't actually have a scene of them making love, but I wish I'd shot it. Now all we have is the shot of them together in bed in the morning, with Maude asleep. Paramount said it would be too tough for people. I said, 'That's sort of what the whole movie is about, a boy falling in love with an old woman; the sexual aspect doesn't have to be distasteful.' They said it would turn everybody off. I was crazy about the footage. But it was a losing battle."
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