I had lots of pain with saddles. Musta gone through about 6 or 7 plastic style seats... some gel... some soft... some with cutouts... all friggin painful. Then I heard about Brooks seats, in particular - the B.17. And back when Wallingford Bicycles had a B.17 for $58 with a 6 month unconditional return policy, I thought - what did I have to lose? My first B.17 I was sold. I bought 3 more in the years after. It's not that seats need a cutout in the center for your nuts to hang free - they just need the right anatomical shape for your body. They do one thing really well that most seats don't: they support you right on your buttbones so that you're already taking pressure off your junk. And the leather is a bonus too, surprisingly it had more 'give' than the softest plastic seats.