‘Exiting’ programs set out to help sex workers leave the sex industry and are usually accompanied by an attempt to ‘reform’ and ‘rehabilitate’ sex workers. In this chapter, we explore how sex work is conceptualised in these programs, and start this by unpacking the conceptual framings to highlight some of the underlying assumptions in ‘exiting’ studies. We do this to show how sex work is framed as a dangerous and harmful activity that people are either trapped in, escaping, or have survived. When sex work is framed this way there is an assumption that workers want to leave the industry because doing sex work is seen as traumatising. While this may be the case for some people, it is not an experience shared by all sex workers, and we show the problems with this assumption and the narrow understanding of ‘exiting’ it encourages. Ultimately, we argue for a need to reconsider the one-dimensional views of sex work shaping ‘exiting’ frameworks and for research and theories to move beyond viewing ‘exiting’ through a lens of addiction and recovery, and sex work as something someone is either ‘in’ or ‘out’ of.