my brooks is getting a cutout!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I'm still wondering how to resolve the basic problem that women (and men) experience on bikes that have your position way down like a racing crouch.

If you sit upright in a chair with good posture, almost all your weight is on your sitbones and very little weight on your sensitive frontal soft parts.
If you then lean forward with your hands and grasp your legs between your ankles and your calves, you'll be sort of simulating the biking racer posture that so many of today's bikes have. Notice your weight then comes right down on your girly sensitive parts and your sitbones are no longer the major weight bearers.
This is why so many women are having pain with their saddles. I'm not so sure it's really the saddles' faults, but perhaps more the fault of the forward crouch racing position so widespread today. Seeking a saddle that helps lessen the pain of this unnatural weight bearing position is just a bandaid for a basically painful setup.
The majority of vintage bikes for the masses (city bikes, touring bikes, mixtes and cruisers)had people sitting a bit more upright.

Can this be solved? I don't know. If you lean far forward on your bike you need support under your front pubic bone and that's where your weight comes down. If you lean back straight upright you only need support for your sitbones, much further back.
Ideas?