All we need is love. And all love needs these days is a little boost from technology to get it going, the sparks flying and the flame burning. In your moms and dads days it was the invention of the phone and automobile that did the trick. Now, it’s virtual dating, social networking, genetic partnering and the scent of a woman.

But we are not alone…

The theory that people can “sniff out” their partners appears to be confirmed by research from Cambridge University. The study reveals how a breed of monkeys uses scent to avoid the potentially genetic disaster of mating with partners too closely related. “You might have heard of studies which show that women prefer the odor of genetically different men.

Mandrills can use body odor to identify potential mates, researchers have found, in a study which lends new support to the theory that humans also have the ability to “sniff out” suitable partners.

Darwin defined sexual selection as the effects of the “struggle between the individuals of one sex, generally the males, for the possession of the other sex”. Biologists today distinguish between “male to male combat” (it is usually males who fight each other), “mate choice” (usually female choice of male mates) and sexual conflict.

Are we what Darwin said in his book “The Descent of Man” and the sexual selection?

So what do you think? Does the scent of a women is an element that sparks love, lust, or none?