A pants type wearing article that, even if a waist region of the article worn bya wearer slips down, does not allow bodily fluid to leak from around a leg of thewearer. In the disposable bodily fluid absorptive article (1) of pants type,a bodily fluid absorption panel (3) located in a crotch region extends in the front-reardirection (A) and is fixed to seat members (11) forming the respective inner surfacesof front and rear waist regions. The bodily fluid absorption panel (3) has flapsections (24) formed on its lateral opposite sides and having free edge sections(40b), and crotch-section elastic members (43) are attached to the free edgesections (40b) in a stretched state. Lower elastic members (15b) are attachedin a stretched state to leg opening edge sections of the front and rear waist regions.The flap sections (24) have portions fixed to the respective inner surfaces ofthe front and rear waist regions, where the portions are places at which the freeedge sections (40b) overlap the lower elastic members (15b) with the flap sections(24) stretched to the lateral direction (B).