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Originally Posted by termdex
I don't really follow VAs all that much, but I have to say that after I read in other posts that Haruhi's seiyuu was this Sakamoto person I was surprised. While watching the show I just thought it was a standard teenage guy's voice, a choice to help support the male image of the character. Kinda like how sometimes a crossdressing male character will have a female voice to support the female image (Aoi Futaba from You're Under Arrest comes to mind).
Is that typical, for teenage male characters to be played by a female VA?
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Yes, it is typical, and not just in anime.
Bart Simpson is voiced by a woman too.
In general, young boy-voices are played by women, because young boys lose their voice after a while. So the only way you can get experienced voice actors to sound like a young boy is if the actor is an actress.
One such advantage is in Naruto, when the main lead can use her real voice when Naruto turned himself into a girl as a part of his Harem no Jitsu. The American dub went the same way with a female voice for Naruto.
The "bishie" voices are men, of course.