Can the expression "make love" mean something besides full on sex?

Sex is definitely implied by it, though in the first half of the twentieth century, the term "making love" was used very frequently in popular culture. I think back then, when people said "make love," sex was not the first thing that popped into everyone's heads. Back then, when you said you wanted to make love to someone, you really meant that you loved them and wanted to share a close, intimate moment with them. Just my opinion, you're free to agree or disagree.

I suppose you could interpret the phrase Make Love Not War into meaning changing a potentially lethal situation for the better by making people somehow love one another as opposed to killing each other.

In the old black-and-white Bette Davis movies (for example), it meant just strolling in the moonlight with a girl and saying sweet nothings.

Today it means bonking.

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I do not think so. The socially accepted/known meaning of that phrase is to have sex lol. It's just more of a "nicer" way to say you want to bone lol.

Well, when Jane Austen says in Emma that, when Emma and Mr. Elton found themselves alone in a carriage, he "began to make passionate love to her," she (J. A.) doesn't mean that he tried to rape her! "Making love" can mean anything from uttering tender words on.

not really...making love is sex, but i consider it a sweeter like the really passionate running fingers through hair kissing soft slow sentual u get the pic lol

actually, yes, it can mean other things.

to make love is to have a very passionate moment between two people.

it doesn't have to be sex, but its mostly referred during that time.

In the context of today's modern vernacular, to "make love" means to "do it"...

and anyone who believes otherwise is not with the program.

when you "make love" to someone, there is more love, passion, feeling, intimacy in it... its not just banging the **** out of her, its about loving her lol

Not that I know of