I first recall thinking about the term 'making love' - beyond figuring out what the Rolling Stones meant by it - when I heard a certain interview with the singer Anne Murray. She (born 1945) was talking about her kids' reaction to one of her Top 40 hits: she didn't initially understand the kids' revulsion to their mother singing about 'making love', but eventually grasped that it meant something different to them than to her. She made it clear that to her this was a generational difference in the understanding of the term. Now, she was of the rural middle-class of Nova Scotia, and may have had a somewhat sheltered childhood, but as a young woman involved in the music business in Halifax, she would have been rubbing shoulders with characters from all strata of society ... so I wonder if the term 'making love' meaning 'sex' was more common in England pre-1960s than in North America (or, at least, Canada)?

As for the way it's used now: I would be quite surprised to come across it meaning anything other than 'having sex' now - again, the case may be different across the pond - any examples?

And what about 'got busted', meaning arrested? Anyone hear of that before the 1960s?