The present invention provides an absorbent article that both feels comfortable when worn and has high absorption performance. In this absorbent article (1), a long absorbent main part (2) having a lengthwise direction and a widthwise direction has, provided in the lengthwise direction, a front-side area (A1) that is positioned at the front side of a wearer when the absorbent article (1) is worn, a rear-side area (A3) that is positioned at the rear side of the wearer when the absorbent article (1) is worn, and an excretion orifice-corresponding area (A2) that is positioned between the front-side area (A1) and the rear-side area (A3), and corresponds to an excretion orifice of the wearer when the absorbent article (1) is worn. The absorbent main part (2) is formed such that the torsional torque value of the rear-side area (A3) is smaller than that of the excretion orifice-corresponding area (A2), and smaller than 8 mN.
