~*~I Must KNOW~*~

I'd have to say I make female characters about 75% of the time, mostly for concept reasons. I won't lie and say I don't appreciate the cheesecake factor, but that is never why I choose to make a certain character female.

And yes, the walk emote for the ladies is mezmerizing.

I have a few female characters, but I rarely play them. Concept for me comes first, and being on Virtue, I indulge in RP here and there and found that it's easier to RP guys. I'm just more comfortable in the role of a guy and I don't role-play women very well. It's a lack of creativity or fear of accusations of homosexuality that leads me to play one gender vs. another. It is, in fact, possible to make a compelling concept that isn't female. I chose to go with what I have the most fun with.

And for the past few years, I've been working in offices with ratios of 3:1 women to men...this past year I've been moved to a space I share with five other women (with myself as the lone guy). Quite frankly after spending 50-60 hours a week working under those conditions, I rather not log into a game and play a woman character. I could use some "guy" time.

Okay out of Curiosity I went a counted my characters.
out of 40 toons

18 - male
21- female
1- neutral (robotic and uses all three models depending on costume slot)

So I guess it's concept over appearance for me as well.

I took a quick look at my handi-dandi Excel spreadsheet of all my characters and I come up with - 94 male and 49 female in my stable.

Exactly. I'm making a character. I'm not making a me.

Because I'm making a Foo.....

Damn it, you're making my bust too big!

But just wait til you see you in a bikini top and Witch bottoms with skin!

In my case I play about two girls for every guy in CoX. I got into Pen & Paper RP a long time ago. Because of a lack of experienced players in my area at the time, I took up the job of running most of the games, which meant I became comfortable portraying male or female NPC's. That led to the occasional female PC. Later on I took up writing and continued to create male and female characters.

My favorite character concept happens to be a female, so I ended up making different versions of her. Then, because I was in an all-female SG I made a few more female alts. I still play men, but find I have more fun with the girls. And I'm perfectly fine with that.

Of course, there's probably a sexual fantasy component to it all, I'm sure. I'm not interested in analyzing it all that much. I'm more of a Jungian than a Freudian, so maybe I'm just trying to integrate my anima? If you understand what that means, then you've probably wasted your time getting a B.A. - I urge you to consider engineering or dentistry instead!