Well get a friend to help then - sheesh.
Gotta share my experience with Magic Shave … well, just be VERY careful if you decide to use it on, er, delicate areas.
I ended up with a mild chemical burn in a place I really didn’t want one.:eek:
Er… are there places you do want one?
Sheesh, nothing. It’s an important point, since the I (the OP) currently have nobody in my life I’m gonna ask to do this for me.
My experience is that it doesn’t hurt the same everywhere. I don’t think my bikini area hurts very much, but having my eyebrows waxed is (almost) unendurable. However, in general waxing large smooth areas where the skin doesn’t have loose folds (like your legs and I imagine your back) hurts less than areas with loose skin like bikini or armpit.
Really, you won’t know unless you try it and see how it is for you.
I’m sitting here giggling to the cat at the image of a guy with a big soul patch somewhere between his shoulder blades.
To the OP, at least for your shoulders and arms have you tried just shaving? I have a certain amount of body hair (not wookie style though) and I’ve shaved my neck and shoulders before, no problem at all. Ask your lady to do your back. Free, no chemical burns or agonizing pain…and you get to be in the shower with her 
What a bunch of PUSSIES!!! If you can’t bear getting your back waxed because it hurts too much–turn in your man card and go shopping for skirts. If you have a good wax-chick there should be little to no pain. I’m the hairiest motherfucker I know and I’ve never cried out in pain from a waxing. I look forward to getting a silky smooth back in order to meet society’s idea of beauty. After all, there’s nothing like a hairy back, is there? Never mind the fact that some chicks who would run from a full, lush back have so much hair between their legs that you need a machete to find the clit.
So, suck it up you bunch of wimps! Forget the creams and shaves–waxing is where it’s at! And remember, when you encounter that hairy, foul smelly bush, pull out the weed wacker and dive in–it will be worth it in the end!
Despite the fact that I said that the ONLY part you can’t reach is in the small of your back? Again, shoulders and the top and bottom of your back are easy to reach.
But hey, it’s your pain threshold - go get waxed then if you think it’s easier (just don’t come crying to me when it hurts to wear a t-shirt afterwards).
Did anyone else think this was going to be about a different kind of male waxing? (WARNING: another TMI thread)
I’m leery of shaving, as I’d expect it to grow back thicker and stronger.
And if I had a lady willing to shave my back, I wouldn’t need to do it. 
Yeah, because I don’t want the soul patch in between my shoulder blades. (and, yeah, it’s be there – I’m that hairy) It’s worth $60 for me to know I didn’t miss a spot.
(my bold)
I’m a hairy bastard and I disagree with the bold bit. My back looks fucking hideous, not only because the hairs grow to like an inch long, but it doesn’t grow uniformly. There’s a fairly large area of my middle lower back that doesn’t grow hair at all, but from the bottom ribs up it starts in patches. Between my shoulder blades is a forest, which then sort of thins out a bit towards my shoulders. On one side at the rear shoulder there’s like a two inch square area where no hair grows. I dunno wtf is going on, but I think it’s repulsive 
nothing to do with society, I don’t give a shit what anyone makes of me, I personally just think it’s horrid.
I’m going to get it shaved shortly. I got it shaved for the first time last year and it felt like I had someone elses back on for weeks after… just the feeling of a shirt on skin was new… I saw my shoulders for the first time since I was a teenager o.O
I hate being hairy, I really do.
What a charmingly misogynistic post. Misandrist, too, now that I think of it, as well as displaying a lot of ignorance about anatomy.
I can’t help but ask – are you all sure repeat waxings are less painful, or are you just more tolerant of the pain?
Honestly, though I’m not sure how one could objectively tell the difference between the two.
For what it’s worth, I did some research on electrolysis and even met with an electrolysist. The folks in that business are pretty solid in their position that shaving doesn’t affect the quality of hair that grows back, but waxing and tweezing–stuff that pulls it out at the root–causes more hair growth. Of course, they are in the business of selling electrolysis.
The argument made sense to me, in that shaving takes place above the skin. How could it really affect anything at the biological level? On the other hand, the claim is that when hair is pulled out by the root it increases blood flow and hormones reaching the hair follicles, thus stimulating more growth. In women, this supposedly include stimulating dark, thick (eyebrow-type) hair to grow where only fine (arm-type) hair had grown before.
Why don’t you go fuck yourself?
On a deeper, philosophical level, is there ever a difference? Though sometimes I find myself asking that, especially when I get my legs waxed. I think it still hurts a lot, but since I’ve been doing it for years, now I know, “Okay, just twenty more minutes and I’ll be totally smooth, just deal.” Kind of like how getting an injection hurts when you’re a kid, and still does as an adult, but it’s more like you put pain into perspective.
A friend of mine got electrolysis and she said that her electrolysist said the same thing–that waxing is really bad. My hair hasn’t gotten any thicker or more unwieldy from waxing, and I definitely notice spots where it just doesn’t grow in anymore. I’m sticking with it.
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Convict, that is not acceptable in this forum.
You’ve been here since 2000? You know better than that.
Knock it off.
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This makes no sense. Women wax their pussies, among other things, all the time. And they go back for more. Also, they pass ripped off chunks of their insides through them every month. And sometimes, 10 lb babies. Why would you equate them with something weak?
(And yeah, above I meant that he might get laughed at while yowling on the table. I didn’t mean to scare him off or anything, and I don’t want to give the impression I’m being abused by my esthetician. She is a cruel, vile woman and she gives me my medicine. I think there is also a hint of, ‘Isn’t this ridiculous, what we do for beauty?’ in there, too.)
I just don’t get why you’d put yourself through it if there was a painless alternative (depilation cream) though. Unless you’re also in the position of having hair in places you can’t reach?