When I first started to RP I learned early on that most people want girls for their partners. Guys want girls. Girls want girls, and so in order to fit in, and have friends I pretended to be a girl too.
I'm not the sort who enjoys bragging, but I'm really good at it. I'm very "feminine" in personality for a boy, combined with the fact that I'm not a fucking creep. I don't do shit like asking people for pictures, and I RP my male, and female OC's exactly the same. In other words when I write a woman I don't do BS like talking about her boobs in every scene.
No one has ever found out that I'm a guy. Not a single person has ever said to me; "Hey are you actually a guy?" In fact, no one has ever even hinted about knowing. The only people who have ever found out are people that I directly told.
Well about four years ago I finally started feeling guilty. I now only RP under my normal email where everyone knows I'm a guy on it. I'm done with the lying, because I've realized that my friends should like the real me, not some fictional version I've created.
The only issue is I'm so used to making female OC's and doing M/F as the girl, but I've noticed people seem to think it's wrong, or at least really weird for men to write/play women. In time I hope to move past that as well.
That's all, sorry for the rant, but thank you for reading if you did.