it angles you back to a better seating position.  

honestly, the only real cure to monkee butt is lots of saddle time. others swear by jell seats and the like, but my experience is it's saddle time.  it's the "no pain, no gain theory".   also for long rides i pop a couple of advil, or aleve in a preemptive attack.

Actually Tammy if u raise the front up on the seat enough it should help ya stay back from the gas tank.  I raised mine with rubber stoppers and it seems to work better than stock.  It helped a little on the fanny but not much. My butt gets numb like after 45 miles insted of 30.

The stock seat is poorly designed in my opinion and maybe replacing it with a pillow gel seat seems to be a growing trend.  $163.00 is alot of money but it could be worth it if you ride your bike long distances.  I would like to get one and maybe a drivers backrest but I am not willing to pay for it.  It seems that a backrest might take the weight off ur rear a little too.

As other's have said...."saddle time" is the biggest solution...short of getting a new seat.

The monkey butt comes from the flexible plastic pan on the stock seat.  After a period of time, the seat is compressed and sitting on the frame and all road vibration goes straight thru to the butt.  You can raise the front up, if you want.  It changes the seat angle but does little else since the rear mounts are still on the frame.....and most butt pain is in the tail bone area.

While you are raising the front, pull off the rubber bumper in the middle of the seat...the one that sits against the fender....to me that one is connected directly to the tail bone when you are riding.

Tammi,

I know the feeling when it comes to name spelling. There are people who often put an 'i' at the end of my name. I have been know to verify my gender to make the point (though it does matter who I am with and where I am at the time)

I have been looking for an old seat because I thought it would be kewl to make my own.  Wal-mart has a gel seat cover  for a bicycle that only cost like 13.95 and it is thick.  Maybe if I removed some foam material and replaced it with the gel it would make a difference.

I didn't use rubber stoppers to raise the front of the seat, instead I used inch long metal spacers and some washers. Worked fine and looks good. It's important to support the middle of the seat so it doesn't sag. I used a 1/2 inch long piece of thick walled fuel line that was tie wrapped to the frame where the seat bumpers hit. The tie wrap goes around the frame and through the piece of fuel line, so far it works great. Oh yeah, the only way to get rid of SBS is to get a lot of riding in and get your butt used to the seat.