Table 2.

Categories of Findings Organized According to a Social-Cognitive Perspective

Category	Description
Environment and behavior
● Possibilities & opportunities	Learning about the existence of male sex work & how to get involved in it
● Social facilitation	Influences of relationships upon starting to work as an escort
● Incentives	Financial, social, and emotional gains or losses resulting from participation in sex work
Environment and cognition
● Local versus global norms	Norms in the immediate social environment versus those in the larger community or society
● Observational learning	Influences upon one’s expectations & beliefs from watching others engage in behavior
Behavior and cognition
● Self-efficacy beliefs	Develop over time given experiences with escorting
● Comfort level	Degree of dissonance or congruence among behaviors, values, and expectations