I have always had a HUGE problem with bike seats, the average thin ones just make my arse hurt within half a mile and anything more than a few miles and I have to start riding side saddle. The only ones that have seemed suitable where the wide padded gel seats.

I am incredibly thin with very thin pelvic bone. So any seat without much padding will crush all nerves and feeling.

I have a new bike and I am looking into getting a new seat for it. I have done a bit of reading up on the subject and apparently the wider padded seats (Seemingly 99% of which are for 'women' which doesn't help my masculinity) are worse for cycling. So I was wondering if there was a compromise? As I have no 'natural' padding of my own.