No, not at all. Love, and sex just can’t be equalized at any stage, even if we call sex as “making love”.
To put in some philosophy and ideology, love is that supreme feeling which has the potential of making you one with god. Pure love has been equalized to worship by Sufi Saints. Mirabai erased the boundaries between love and worship in her devotion of Krishna. Love means acceptance, and achieving something higher than worldly and materialistic emotions.
On the other hand, sex is denounced by many religions as one of the many feelings which takes you away from god and towards the animalistic part of the great chain of being. Sex is very close to lust, and lust is one of the “seven deadly sins” in Christianity.
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In the era of Renaissance, the philosophers came up with the concept of Great Chain of Being, in which, humans are placed in the center. The top position in the chain is given to god and angels, and the last position to animals and other creatures. Embracing materialistic and worldly desires to gratify ourselves, like sex, shifts the position of humans more towards the animals, while embracing the renunciation (a condition for love) takes you towards god, making you achieve the highest position in the chain.
The theory shows that love and sex, are antithetical ideologically, and hence just can’t be equal. While love demands renouncing all the materialistic desires, sex means embracing them.