It's fascinating, and being "The Subject" of the fascination and never truly "Objective" is a particular conundrum! Good luck with the "unfortunately" aspect -- totally possible to stop. (sexual humor warning: https://imgur.com/dont-touch-girls-m0Qk8)

I think it's part of being human.

I invite a brain specialist to step in here and comment which regions of the brain compelled us to agree with those whom we also feel we "need".

EDIT: .. cut to ncr100 proceeding to open youtube.com ...