Unwanted thoughts about my friends

[Seraph]

Hello

Ive had this reoccurring issue where I have romantic or sometimes sexual thoughts about some of my female friends. I usually dont feel, or try my best not to feel, any attraction towards them outside of a very basic "I think they are attrative" as I dont want to be a creep or take advantage of a friendship and ruin it.

Many times these thoughts will just appear in my head out of nowhere. Most of the time it involves a fantasy where we end up having mutual feelings for each other (even if I dont really have feelings like that for them). Even worse are the times when I have random sexual feelings toward them. There have been times where I, without wanting to, fantasized about having sex with a friend of mine after we met up for the first time irl (most of my friends are online and I havent met any of the irl yet).

Obviously I dont like feeling this way because its creepy and objectifiy but I also noticed that it affects our relationship. I tend to avoid my friends that I have these feelings about or at least not talk to them as much which has inevitable negative effects on our friendship.

Do you have any tips on what to do in this situation? I really hate feeling this way and I was wondering if there is a way to avoid these fantasies or at least quickly get rid of them.