Do you think Rose and Cal had sex?

Probs

no she was a prune

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I haven't seen the movie in more than twenty years, but I seem to remember it was strongly implied, if not actually shown, that they did it, and did it hard.

eww

I don't believe they did. See, the two of them came from a society that was still constrained by ridiculously prudish Victorian values. Cal could sleep with any woman he wanted, so long as he was discreet. Rose, on the other hand, was probably raised to keep herself "pure" and virginal so that she was eligible for marriage. It was drilled into upper-class girls' brains from childhood to try and stay virgins until marriage, and many men would not settle for a young woman who had never been married, and had been deflowered early. In fact, losing her virginity early would have lost her any chance of finding a husband.

While it is heavily implied Rose and Cal might have been having sex, I have a feeling that the scene with the diamond told something different. The actions imply that Cal was trying to entice Rose into his bed, but she refused, based on her upbringing. Some people might argue that her mother would have pushed her to do anything to keep Cal's interest until the wedding vows had been said, even sleeping with him before their wedding night. However, that kind of flies in the face of Upper-class European culture at the time.

Yes they did. Remember the scene where Cal overturns the table? Rose states that she is to be his wife and he tells her that she's already his wife in practice, if not yet by law and that she will respect him. So..."wife in practice" to me means they have had sex already.

No. A man of his station would consider a woman who'd have sex before marriage a whore and not worth marrying, and she didn't want to have sex with him.

As for saying she was "already his", in those days an engagement was taken rather more seriously than today, a person who broke an engagement was considered to have broken their word and to have done something dishonorable. Hell, someone who broke an engagement could be sued for "breach of promise", which was considered a legal form of breach of contract.