The purpose of the present invention is to provide an absorbent article that has a silky top sheet and that is unlikely to impart a sticky feeling in an excretory orifice contact area and in the posterior area of a wearer after having absorbed menstrual blood. The absorbent article of the present invention has the configuration indicated below. The absorbent article (1) comprises a liquid permeable top sheet (2) a liquid impermeable back sheet (21) and an absorbent body (3) that is arranged between the top sheet (2) and the back sheet (21) and is characterized in that: the top sheet (2) has a first area (7) containing a blood lubricity imparting agent and a second area (8) containing a blood lubricity imparting agent each of said areas containing a blood lubricity imparting agent that has a kinematic viscosity of 0.01 80 mm/s at 40 °C a water hold percentage of 0.01 4.0 mass% and a weight average molecular weight of less than 1 000 the first area (7) containing the blood lubricity imparting agent overlaps at least partially with an excretory orifice contact area of the top sheet (2) that comes into contact with the excretory orifice of the wearer the second area (8) containing the blood lubricity imparting agent is arranged more to the rear side in the lengthwise direction of the absorbent article (1) than is the first area (7) containing the blood lubricity imparting agent and in that the basis weight of the blood lubricity imparting agent in the first area (7) containing the blood lubricity imparting agent is higher than the basis weight of the blood lubricity imparting agent in the second area (8) containing the blood lubricity imparting agent.
