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.

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

I use a brush on a long stick.

My back doesn’t get dirty

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.

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.

Some arms flexibility would come a long way.

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

I got a prehensile penis.

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

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.

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).

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.

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