“…Although there were periods of time when restrictions on women's activities were relatively loose, the popularity of Buddhism and the emergence of religious Daoism in Tang Dynasty, and the Song government's endorsement of Neo-Confucianism ultimately determined the overall trend of increasingly limiting the female role to solely serving parents, in-laws, husbands, and sons. Neo-Confucianism has been widely adopted in East Asian cultures and contributed to various sexual and gender double standards between women and men (Brotto, Chik, Ryder, Gorzalka, & Seal, 2005; H. Kim, Edwards, Sweeney, & Wetchler, 2012;J. L. Kim & Ward, 2007;Lee & Mock, 2005;Meston, Trapnell, & Gorzalke, 1998;Tong, 2013;Woo, 2016;Woo & Brotto, 2008;Youn, 2001).…”