I can see both sides of this discussion.
These type of charges seem to happen at the drop of a hat, and come in large numbers, so can make one wonder what is actually happening, and wonder if anyone is being accused falsely.
That being said, I don't think any of the women bring this accusations forward are doing so because they had an arm put around their waist. Many of these women have been told their careers would not advance if they didn't "go along" with what was happening, or if they told anyone about it.
From what I've read, Matt Lauer is accused of giving a female coworker a sex toy as a gift, and having another come into his office, and then dropping his pants and exposing himself to her.
Not long ago, pop-singer Kesha took her producer Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald (Dr. Luke) to court where she accused him of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, and stated she had been drugged and raped.
He counter-sued Kesha and her mother for defamation of character. The cases are ongoing. Kesha was told by others in the industry that if she didn't shut up and go along with the behavior, her albums wouldn't get released. A number of other singers came to her defense.
Most notably was American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, who had this to say about working with Dr. Luke:
"I chose to forgo hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, by keeping my name off of "My Life Would Suck Without You.""
"I was told if I didn't work with him, my album wouldn't be released. I was making a point to the people working with me, going, 'This is how much I don't want to do this,'" she said. "I don't care about the money. I don't care about, oh, 'You're going to be the most famous person ever if you do this.' That's not what holds weight in my life."
"There's a lot of times in my career where you don't see my name on the song and that's because sometimes I don't write them," she said. "A lot of times I do change the song in a way that probably you should ask for credit, but I don't because the song was already great – I just made it more me. I think a lot of artists steal credit a lot from writers, which I think is super crappy because that's their livelihood."
But, "if I deserve it, I usually ask," she continued. "And I did deserve it on ['My Life Would Suck Without You'] just because I changed it a bit." Clarkson also recalled how the topic was first broached, and how she vehemently refused to be associated with him.
"They brought up writing credit at the end," she went on. "They were like, 'Well, you changed the song.' And I was like, 'I don't want my name near his. I want to pretend this didn't happen in my life and I want to forget it.'"
Last year, Clarkson spoke out against Dr. Luke and in defense of Kesha, offering up her own take on the embattled music producer.
"A lot of artists that have worked with him don't work with him anymore for pretty good, solid reasons," she said during an interview with Australia's KIIS FM The Kyle & Jackie O Show. "He's not a good person to me. We've clashed. I can't really say anything other than that."