Isn't that about 98% of the women one meets in Second Life (and porn forums too for that matter)?
Just check my signature ,hehe. I am very, very skeptic and for me anyone in the net is a guy unless the contrary is proven buuut thet doesn't mean that I am paranoid. I've learnt not to care about a person real sex (in other words: you don't need to try hard if you are pretending to be someone else for me, lol). After all internet is just for fun. Real life is worrisome enough to, besides that, worry about the net life as well (I don't get how, stubbornly, some of my net friends only chat to 'real women' even though it is easy to fool a horny guy, or maybe it was just easy to fool me in the past xDDD).
Now, who is a real female on the net?, many claim to be, and definitely not all are, even less so in porn/porn related sites. The girls who post in 'porn places' are either guys (of course my horse, it doesn't require an 'Einstein' to see that) or girls who have some business (adult entertainers, web models, porn actresses), and even some of those those pay some guys (like webmasters or managers) to post for them (often as the models themselves), in their websites or boards like this (for free publicity often, hehe, as if you didn't know). Of course there are exceptions, they are very few and sparse
but luckily we have a nice amount of exceptions here at the bea, including some regulars who are not in the adult industry.
Somehow being a female online is very 'prestigious' and indeed helpful. My comment of girls getting more help points in that direction, and considering how males online are quite often often ignored, pretending being a female is a good deal in the mind of a pretender. Males usually find it funny when they are mistaken for females, or at least my friends tell me so. But when you mistake a 'female' for a male, many of such 'females' get angry (that always turns on my 'impostor' alert lol even if they are real females, but I just see no reason to get angry for that and from my point of view that demonstrates insecurity).
Many guys (thinking that they are clever) request for some evidence to demonstrate that a female online is a female in real life. Many guys just request pics, I find it a waste of time and also demonstrate that as requesters they are not as clever as they think. Impostors/female pretenders can be quite crafty when playing a girl.
Anyhow I find that there are several 'levels' in which the pretenders work.
-Level 0: they show off pics of famous pornstars or models, that's a serious lack of imagination and craftsmanship. lol. They are easy to unveil.
-Level 1: I have met a couple of guys who pretended being girls and after some time they revealed they are guys in real life and used pics of their girlfriends, wives, classmates, workmates, local models...in other words less widely known females. Way to many guys fall for this one.
-Level 2: Maybe related to the previous one. The pretenders show off pics of a girl holding a piece of paper/message or posing in certain position asjked by the requester. Interesting enough those pics usually show up days after the request was made (with the cellphones, webcams and other gadgets that should be immediate), maybe because the pretender must get permission from his female friends to fulfill the request. However one note of caution, if the requester gets the pic immediately, there is a chance that you could be indeed chatting to a female or to a guy with a very collaborative girlfriend (and those do exist, some girls are incredibly open and permissive). Many (most?) guys usually fall from this level on.
-Level 3: live voice chat, no video. There is plenty of sound editing software around the net, getting a guy sound like a female is easy if you know how the software works.
-Level 4: Video. A girlfriend or workmate can be recorded and the video used in any moment to prove most people that the pretender is a female. As it isn't live, the pretender may use it or a collection of videos over and over again. The more videos the less likely a pretender will be discovered.
-Level 5: Live video chat. Okay in this stage one should better give up skepticism at this point, however, how do you know that it isn't a guy's significant other playing along with him for a moment. This applies for the occasional/once in a lifetime videochat, of course if the live videochat is regular, then I'd see no reason to be skeptic anymore lol.
I'm not saying that every female in the net is a guy, I am just advising skepticsm to avoid being disappointed in some moment. Just like me, stop asking/requesting enjoy the ride or avoid it. When we are horny we think we are clever, but we are not.
Sorry if i went too offtopic, I just needed to write this down. Also I hope no one takes this personal I was just writing down my thoughts.