I find nothing whatsoever sleazy or degrading about this topic. I'll tell you why. I check out everyone's ass I see. Grocery store, parking lot, wherever. Men and women. I am not looking at their butts in a sexual way. I like to see what type of jeans people are wearing. The wash, the cut and the
back pockets.
I like different styles of back pockets. I love to see the backside of people when they get a new pair of jeans. But not to check out their ass

I am checking out the pockets.
I guess there might be people on this forum that are looking at people's butts in a sexual manner but I think most of us are really just looking at the jeans. This is so much more of an innocent thread than so many I have read in the past. I guess it is all in how you are looking at it. If people do make sexual comments, I am sure it is more in jest than anything.
If I find something offensive, I don't look at it. I really don't understand the big deal at all.