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Bikkhu,
What do you mean by "saddle contact area"? The point is where and how the saddle makes contact. Sheldon explains it quite nicely in his discussion of Brooks saddles.
By way of experience, I can tell you straight off that for me, wide saddles, especially wide plastic saddles suck **** and cause thigh chafing, inefficient pedaling, etc. That's not to mention perineal and labial problems for men and women, respectively.