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I think this should be in General Anime.
But yes, plenty of guys read shoujo. They might not be willing to admit it, but they'll read it and watch the anime. Just like there's plenty of girls that watch/read shounen materials. There may be some that are exceptionally skewed, but in general the audience outside the target demographic is more than statistically insignificant.
I've read plenty of shoujo myself. Obviously Clamp stuff like Sakura and Rayearth, but also a number of other materials.
Overall the boundary isn't that strong. The genre is mostly just a matter of what magazine the work appears in. Plenty of people have commented that, even with its exceptionally adult content, Bitter Virgin would fit in very well as a shoujo work despite being published in a seinen mag. The works of Yamamoto Souichirou may be called "shounen" but really tend to transcend gender completely, as do many other authors' material. It is frankly commonplace for boys to read girls' manga and vice versa.
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