I had a friend in high school who was a Basketball Player. She was 6'0". She recently got engaged to someone who is 6'5".
You have really little reason to be insecure. It's unfortunate that you go to a small school because you have fewer choices when it comes to finding a suitable partner.
The great part is that when you move up to College and the University Level, you'll have more people to choose from. So there will be taller men that you can feel comfortable with.
Technically, it really shouldn't matter whom you go out with and i the guy is shorter with you. However, these are the subtle influences of a patriarchal or male-dominant society where it's believed the male should be in a position of authority.
Height is physically symbolic of stature. George Washington was 6'0" making him a natural leader that people literally looked up to. People in the 1700s only grew to be 5'6" - 5'7" due to malnutrition and lack of proteins and a healthy diet that people nowadays enjoy.
Lyndon B. Johnson, who created the Great Society, was a towering figure. In fact, during the Presidential Debates when running for office, they specifically tailored long sleeve shirts with high collars to hide his incredibly long neck.
Sadly enough, LBJ developed a bad reputation with the Politics of War during that Time Period. However, he was instrumental in passing a lot of Civil Rights legislation. He was known to shake hands with people towering over them and wouldn't let go of their hand keeping them firmly in place while he talked to them. That was intimidating.
If you're 6'0", you should play up to your strengths. Your best asset will most likely be your legs. If you really want to overcome your insecurities, wear wear shorter skirts. Regardless of whether guys are intimidated by your height or not, men can always appreciate legs. If you're into sports, you most likely are in shape and have athletic legs.
The key to overcoming insecurities is to play to your strengths. Don't dwell on your weaknesses. Let people notice you for the qualities or attributes that make you special.
As a female, it's all about the hair and posture. Get one of your girlfriends or a hair stylist to help you find appropriate look that best brings out your cheekbones and the whatever is deemed the finest qualities about your face. If you go to a hair salon, there are magazines and books that have all kinds of different hairstyles as examples. Consult with a hair stylist to figure out which one would look best on you.
A good movie to watch is "Princess Diaries" with Anne Hatheway. You see how she's got ratty hair, insecure, and a total mess. However, when she gets her makeover taking "Princess Lessons," she gets transformed from an Ugly Duckling to Swan.
It's the same thing with you. In the movie, notice it's all about the hair. It was all about the Hair for her. When you find that right hairstyle for you, it really does work wonders on how it complements your facial features.
Posture is extremely critical. Forget about being insecure about your height. It's your best feature. I work in the Film & Entertainment Industry here in L.A. Do you know how many women would love to be as tall as you? There are so many women who want to do runway modeling and you need to be a minimum of 5'8" to qualify else you have to stick to print work.
Regardless of whatever your bra size is, posture makes all the difference in the world. If you're slumping or slouching and you have your head tilted downward, it gives off that vibe of insecurity.
The reason why people tend to avoid insecure people is because they give an air of discomfort and no one likes to be uncomfortable. The reason why people have stage fright and panic in front of people is because they're afraid they're going to say the wrong thing or something stupid that will make people laugh at them.
Audiences get uncomfortable watching someone who is uncomfortable on stage because they empathize and that nervous vibe transfers onto them.
Maybe your posture is fine, but you can always check by standing straight up against a wall to see that your shoulders are back and your chest is forward.
After that, the next thing to do is focus on how you interact with people, which is by smiling and making direct eye contact with them. High School Students tend to avoid this aspect because no one likes to be rejected. So they avoid eye contact and have tunnel vision.
If you're really intent on luring a guy to taking interest in you, you need to be open and approachable. Your height is already foreboding so you'll have to charm people with a warm, inviting smile. Even if no one takes romantic interest in you, you'll still garner more friends and raise your popularity.
This is a good time for you to practice using height to your advantage. You'll need it in the Working World. You'll want to use your height to help you obtain jobs and be taken seriously. You can practice being an Domme.
Your height and stature can affect people and how they react toward you. It's good practice on anyone because you want to be ready for the time when that gorgeous, hunk 6'5" strapping male walks into your life.
If you don't practice this, that Perfect Dream Guy is going to walk into your life and then walk out because you were too shy. You'll be kicking yourself because you didn't know what to do and didn't practice these things. If you don't practice this stuff I told you, you will be ill-prepared when opportunity arises and that guy is right in your lap.
I was answering a question earlier today about the Courtship Rituals. As a Female, it's more difficult for you because women usually have to wait for the guy to approach them. Because you're extremely tall, there are few guys who will feel comfortable approaching you because of your intiimidating height.
In Courtship, if a guy says and does the wrong thing, he'll strike out. The same thing goes for you when handling the delicate courtship ritual that comes to guys that will attempt to court you. They'll be skittish and you're going to need to be nurturing and supportive.
Conversely, if you don't practice getting over your insecurities and shyness, it will be to yoru detriment when that Perfect Guy looks at you and you accidentally give off all the wrong signals or where your insecurities and shyness repel that person.
I'm not trying to put a downer on relationships. The nice part is that you're in high school. In high school, it's a closed community where everybody knows everybody. When you move up to the College and University Level, you can start fresh or with a clean slate. So whatever insecurities or hang-ups you had back then don't follow you. That is, unless you let them.
I really don't want to answer your Virginity or Horniness Question, which appears to be the main focus of your question. Your main focus is practicing on your outward demeanor and sex should be the last thing on your mind.
However, if you want an adult answer, there's always Masturbation. I answered a question yesterday by a female claiming where she and her girlfriends were wondering about the pros and cons of Masturbation.
I said that the best thing for women to do is become familiar with their body and how it works. Although Sex is a taboo subject, women are better off learning how their sex organs function and what works best for them rather than having a guy teach the woman what is and isn't pleasurable.
If you're a Virgin and you've never experienced sexual pleasure, you may get conditioned to enjoy things from a guy's perspective if you should, on the off chance, have a sexual encounter and where the guy is going to attempt to teach you.
Although you shouldn't even be engaging in any sort of sex under 18, you should at least know how to stimulate yourself and what does and doesn't work because if you don't know anything about your body, your first time is going to be a nervous and uncomfortable experience because you're going to rely heavily on the guy to take care of you.
If the guy does it wrong or he has little experience, he could screw it up and accidentally get your pregnant, which would obviously be a bad thing at this stage in your life.
If you think being tall and insecure is bad, imagine being tall, insecure, and knocked up at your high school with all your classmates whispering and pointing at you as the "pregnant, tall girl" all because some bonehead messed it up for you, which stems from you having few choices in the way of partners that took an interest in you.
That's what happened in "Golden Girls" and how Dorothy (Bea Arthur) was really tall and got her knocked up and pregnant by her ex-husband Stan forcing her to get married to that bum. Bea Arthur is extremely tall and that was the storyline in that T.V. Show where Stan as the loser ex would always drop by asking for money because he was broke. You don't want to a Dorothy with your own Stan or deadbeat.
Sadly enough, although it's a comical aspect of that T.V. Show, your height does make you vulnerable to such a situation because if you only seek out guys taller than you, there's no guarantee that that they're tall and smart. They may be total boneheads that will do something really dumb that could muck up your life and their only redeeming quality is that they're taller than you.
In terms of Probability when it comes to finding a suitable male who is taller than 6'0" and smart, the chances go down. You do the Math. In fact, sometimes height can affect how smart a person is because they rely on that attribute in the same way that attractive people tend to be flaky because attractive people get pampered or get attention or things done for them so that they don't have to think. When they don't have to think, they tend to think slower.
That's why shorter people tend to be more aggressive and quick of wit because they have to compensate for their lack of height in order to get noticed.
Getting back to your Sex Question, if you at least if you practice with masturbation, you'll be able to learn more about your body and also curb your horniness. You don't want your horniness to get the better of you and put you in a bad financial or social situation all because your hormones were raging out of control.
Maybe parents would frown upon this advice that I'm giving you about Masturbation, but if it will keep you mentally in check and get you off (no pun intended) thinking about sex, then you should probably do it.
Once again, this is all about time. Your time in high school is different from adulthood. It may be a really long time, but things get better in College and when you reach adulthood.
However, I still strongly urge you practice with your posture, smiling, and showing off your best attributes. Even if there doesn't seem to be a guy in sight right now, you want to be ready for when the time comes that he walks into your life so that you'll be prepared and know what to do.
2006-08-27 11:04:57
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