An incontinence article in pants form for receiving bodily excretions, includes an abdominal section, a back portion and a crotch portion which extends in the longitudinal direction between the abdominal and back sections and is undetachably joined in overlapping regions to the abdominal portion and the back portion, wherein the abdominal portion and the back portion are connected to one another on both sides at the lateral seam regions forming a closed waist opening. The crotch portion extends with the long end thereof on the abdominal side and with the long end thereof on the back side to a respective imaginary line L1 or L2 which is parallel to the transverse direction, wherein the lines L1 and L2 divide the abdominal portion and the back portion into a respective first abdominal or back sub-region remote from the leg opening and a respective second stomach or back sub-region near the leg opening. In the first abdominal and back sub-region, first elastification means are provided, of which in each case only one single first elastification means is fixed within a respective adhesive zone of the strip-shaped adhesive zones disposed in parallel at a distance M between a first and a second layer of the first abdominal and back sub-region.
