Y’all know it’s not just a fandom thing, right? Maybe he didn’t start out that way, but Making Things Uncomfortably Sexual™ has been Venom’s standard operating procedure in the comics for literal decades. It’s kind of his thing.
I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.