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Reach as far as I can, use trickle-down soapenomics to take care of the rest.

I use my hands to wash my back. You?

I use a scrubbing brush with a long handle.

I don’t. The mind-controlling alien parasite attached to my spine doesn’t let me when I try reaching for it…

A belt-like loofa that you hold on both ends and pull from side to side.

Right hand goes high, left hand goes low, then you criss cross apple sauce

Long ago I planted a colony of sentient microbes there, and bade them subdue the area and keep it free of vermin. They have tamed the wilderness and established a sophisticated, well ordered civilization. Although recently I have been feeling a lot warmer.

Bend the arm the ouchholyfuckalmostreach way. Scrub. Then bend the arm the owfuckalmostjesuschrist way. Scrub again. Easy!

I just reach back there. I have these crazy things on my arm called "elbows".

I'll be honest... Not very well. Pretty much squeeze my loofa at the top of my back so the suds run down, then rinse. No backne or any other issues though

I’m surprised how few answers actually include actually practical and helpful tools such as a bathing brush with a good long grip to reach just about everywhere. Is this a cultural thing? I swear I’ve seen them in British tv series at the very least, so I know for sure these are a common thing at least in the Nordics and the UK.

But I mean it’s the best. Really gets the old dead skin cells and other stuff off, and the blood flowing. The bristles are a bit rough, but that just makes it that much more pleasurable, you really feel it!

Edit:

These things, surely they are mostly everywhere?

Lather up my partners front and get them to slide up and down on my back. Then it’s my turn!

My hands.

I suspect at some point I'll switch to a brush with a handle.

I got a prehensile penis.

Set the showerhead to "Power Blast" and hope and pray.

I use a brush on a long stick.

I have a small hammer I use, to lightly chip away at the wall tiles to provide both exfoliation, a back scratcher, and acupuncture all in one.

Big ol' brush.

I also have long scrubby things. Don't know what they're made of, but I think nylon. Basically really long washcloths with a rough texture and strings to hold onto while scrubbing. But the brush does a better job, so I usually only use the cloth ones when I'm away from home because they pack easier.

That's assuming I can't con my wife into getting soaked just to stand there scrubbing me down for a half hour while I continually say "yah, right there, a little harder. Now to the left, oh yeah, that's great, a little more. Now up some, fucking perfect, you're awesome. Now down a little again" and so on until she throws the scrubber at me.

I mean, I assume the water running down my body when I shower is good enough? Can't imagine my back of all places getting so dirty that I need to scrub it.

Some arms flexibility would come a long way.

Like the rest of my body, I use a loofah. I have enough mobility to get to my entire back from one arm.

I get my partner to do it for me!

I try to reach from different directions:

• upper left (using my left hand)
• upper right (using my right hand)
• lower left (using my left hand)
• and lower right (using my right hand).

For the regions I missed, I have a soapy mesh/loofah thing held by some kind of rope on both ends and with both hands, I use it to reach the unreachable areas:

• left hand upper and right hand lower, loofah going diagonally (like this: \)
• right hand upper and left hand lower, loofah going diagonally (like this: /)
• both hands lower, loofah going horizontal (like this: —)

I suppose that should be enough, but I only do that once a week. For the rest of the week, I just reach as far as I can and let the soapy water do what it can.

With someone else's front?

I have a body wash/soap towel that's long enough to go around my back.

I always wash my back very happily and with a good amount of water.

Japanese exfoliating wash cloth

With a shower just get what I can and hope the spray and soap gets whats left good enough. Sometimes will use a wash rag and I can just barely grasp the corners and get it a bit but not sure its much more vigorous than the spray. With a bath I place the luffa between my back and the back of the tub and move around. That actually should get it pretty good.

My arms are pretty flexible so I just use my hands & a washcloth.

I got long arms and an exfoliating luffa. I just wash every part. There's no part of my back that I can't reach.

For a good long while I just contorted, but I have some mobility/flexibility issues after a shoulder injury and got a long handled brush, and they're so much easier.