We all like to look.
I’ve written about it (this concept called “custody of the eyes”) once or twice before. I thought it originated in the land of twelve steps, but I was wrong. In fact, it’s a Catholic concept, with roots in Sts. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, best I can tell. This, I’m told, is variously known as time 211, or the rule of St. Augustine:
Although your eyes may perhaps fall on a woman, they must never be fixed on her. For in passing here and there, you are not forbidden to see women, but to desire them or wish to be desired by them is wicked. On either side bad passions are stirred up, and that not merely by touch or by thought, but by sight alone. And say not that your minds are pure if your eyes are not kept in modest restraint, for the immodest eye is the messenger of the impure heart. And when such hearts exchange thoughts by looks though without words and by fleshly concupiscence allure each other with evil desires, then chastity flies from the soul, even though the body is free from outward stain. And when a man fixes his eye on a woman, or takes pleasure in being looked on by her, let him not imagine that his sin will pass unnoticed. He will surely be seen and by those he thinks not of.