An incontinence article in panty form for receiving body excrement, comprising a front belly section and a rear back section, which are separate and spaced apart from one another in a longitudinal direction of the incontinence article, and further comprising a crotch section that comprises an absorbent body and extends in the longitudinal direction between the belly section and the back section and is non-detachably joined to the belly section and to the back section, the belly section and the back section being joined to one another at side seam regions on both sides during production to form a belly and back band that is continuous in a transverse or peripheral hip direction and has a hip opening that is closed in the peripheral hip direction, both the crotch section and the belly section and the back section delimiting leg openings of the incontinence article, first elastification means being provided in a hip-side region (20, 24) of the belly section and of the back section, which extend at a separation from and parallel to each other in the transverse or peripheral hip direction to thereby continuously elasticize the belly section and the back section in the aforementioned hip-side region (20, 24) over the entire extensive extent, second elastification means being provided in a crotch-side region (22, 26) of the back section, and preferably also of the belly section, facing the leg openings, these second elastification means extending from the two side seam regions in the direction of a longitudinal center axis of the incontinence article, the second elastification means either not being present or having no elastifying effect in the overlapping region of the absorbent body with the belly section and with the back section, characterized in that a rear end region of the absorbent body facing the back section is covered in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction by a flat material section that is provided on the side of the crotch section facing the body, the flat material section protrudes laterally over the crotch section in the transverse direction so as to overlap the back section, and is non-detachably joined to the back section, the flat material section also protrudes over the periphery of the crotch section in the longitudinal direction, the flat material section comprises an edge that faces the hip and extends essentially in the transverse direction and an edge that faces the crotch and extends essentially in the transverse direction and two side edges (208, 210), the flat material section in the region of the edge thereof facing the crotch is not fixed to the crotch section above the absorbent body, so as to be able to lift off the crotch section located therebeneath and form a pouch for body excrement that opens in the longitudinal direction, the edge of the flat material section facing the crotch has an elastic or elastified design, the flat material section is fixed continuously or discontinuously to the side of the crotch section facing the body so as to delimit the pouch along a path extending essentially in the transverse direction and along two paths extending essentially in the longitudinal direction on either side, and the flat material section is fixed continuously or discontinuously to the side of the back section facing the body along the edge thereof facing the hip and extending essentially in the transverse direction and along the two side edges (208, 210) thereof.