Also, there are men (not that I'd be one of them) who pretend to date anime women, put them on their desktop, plaster their walls with posters, buy their action figures, listen to their character song 24/7 (when they aren't skipping through episodes of the anime to look for their occasional appearance), jerk off exclusively to porn of them, buy life size pilows with their image on it, and sometimes cosplay as the character and then make out with their cosplayed selves in the mirror.
Or so I've heard.