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@JWestland
Haha that's very funny :)
And all true :/
Spez makes women models, but if there's that much difference? Some people say an Oura and Romin are pretty much the same.
Selle SMP doesn't think pelvises are male or female, so they just do lots of models. Their LDY models are the exact same, just with pink stitching (sigh).
There's a lot of variation within genders, on average women need slightly wider saddles, but some men have wide hip bones too (Le Manfriend cycles a Brooks, I doubt he'd fit on a 133 saddle...). I guess as a women you start on 155, as a man on 143 but there's a lot of variation possible.
Same with hardness, I don't like soft saddles as they push in the flesh, so I start on a medium padded saddle, but some people really need more padding and others can cycle on granite.
I find the SMP comfier than the Oura BTW, did a 14 mile cycle yesterday. Slight pressure, none on SMP.