How do you wash your back?

My hands.

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

I put liquid soap in the palm of my left hand. Turn one the water and put my right hand under, then let water roll off into my left hand. Turn off the water. Wash hands without wasting water. Turn it on to rinse.

There's a guy at my office who would let the water run for the entire five minutes that he brushed his teeth after lunch. I got so sick of it that I printed a sign and taped it to the wall. It said not to waste water and to turn it off while brushing. I haven't seen him doing it since, but I also haven't seen him at all since. I hope he saw it before someone took it down.

Edit: misread the title.

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.

Water

Japanese exfoliating wash cloth

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.

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?

I get my partner to do it for me!

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?

With someone else's front?

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

I rub my bar of soap on it and then wash it off. Do you not?

I use a scrubbing brush with a long handle.

I got a prehensile penis.

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.

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.

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

Do some yoga my friend!

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

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

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

Soap the washcloth, hold opposite corners diagonally for what I can't reach, occasionally use a brush for extra measure.

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

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.

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.

The only way anyone should ever do it.

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

Get a back and shoulder loofah and call it a day (not endorsing this one, just using it as an example of what I'm talking about).

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 my hands and a loofah. I'm double jointed in my shoulders and can easily reach every part of my back

My back doesn't get dirty

The only effective way is to find a spouse or partner who actually cares about you.

(now single) Old fart here.

Otherwise this is my current one (they're all about 4/10 IMHO): Exfoliating Back Scrubber for... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C1YZDFFM or something similar

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.

As best I can.

My joints are over flexible, so i can reach everything just fine.