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This is a good question for which there is no clear single answer. Why do we play as anime girls although we very openly identify as men? 

A purely scientific, mechanical, answer would be that it's easy to make them look good since they have simple designs that avoid the uncanny valley, they perform relatively well, and they're easy to customize. This does not specify why women are played more often than men though.

Perhaps there's just something intrinsically pleasing about anime models? Would our forefathers be using anime models in VR?