Nuns told Scarlett Jones she would know when her calling arrived.
It turned up in an Amsterdam strip club, when she was 18 and standing outside it, too nervous to go in.
She grew up expecting to give her life to the Church.
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She now sees clients in a professional dungeon in Derby, where men pay her to take charge of them.
The schoolgirl who planned to run the Vatican
Scarlett, who has more than 567,000 Instagram followers at the time of writing, spent her childhood inside a version of Catholicism that left very little room for anything else.
“I went to Catholic school and was sheltered for most of my life. The church was a very big part of my childhood,” she said.
The ambition was not modest.
“I’ve always had high expectations of myself, so when I was Catholic, I believed I would become the first female Pope.”
She hasn’t formally withdrawn her application.
“Perhaps it still isn’t too late because everyone loves a reformed sinner.
Maybe becoming a dominatrix is simply part of me playing the long game.”
The vocabulary came from school.
“Nuns would come into school and talk to us about vocations and how you would receive a calling,” she said.
“I suppose stripping turned out to be my calling. What can I say?”
Amsterdam, and one very Catholic moral dilemma
The trip was a girls’ holiday. The strip club nearly didn’t happen at all, because Scarlett spent a while deciding whether she was even allowed through the door.
“Being Catholic, I was so nervous about seeing my first strip show and was literally having a moral dilemma.”
Then she watched it, and the dilemma evaporated.
“As soon as I watched it, I was completely enamoured and knew immediately that it was something I wanted to do.”
She went back to university and found a club in Sheffield.
“I went for a trial shift, and the rest is history. I loved it.”
Why OnlyFans stopped being enough
Adult films followed, then OnlyFans. The money worked. The days didn’t.
Filming alone in a flat wore her down, so she started following dominatrixes on Instagram and listening to podcasts about professional domination.
She took her first clients in October 2025.
“Domination was an avenue I had never explored before, but it looked fun and I’ve always enjoyed working with people in person,” she said.
“I decided to try it because being at home on OnlyFans can be isolating, and now I already have regulars who spend a fortune.”
Some of those regulars travel up from London.
Canes, humiliation and a man in a cage for an hour
Clients ask for the cane and the whip. They ask to be humiliated, spat on, put in women’s clothes.
Others want something quieter, which is where it gets stranger.
“I had a man who loved being ignored, so I locked him in a cage, left him there for an hour and went to have a cup of tea,” she said.
Her read on the appeal is fairly unromantic. “Many of these men are in control all day, so they come to the dungeon because they want to relinquish that control.
When the door closes, they can forget about the normal world and become whoever they want to be.”
The Pokémon cards nobody has valued
Admirers send gifts. One sent a collection of Pokémon cards, which its previous owner said could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Scarlett has photographs of them. Nobody has independently valued them.
The graduation her parents skipped
A friend told her parents she had started stripping.
They told her to stop, and she said she would, then went back to dancing without mentioning it.
When they found out the second time, she refused to stop.
“We had a massive argument that lasted for years and they didn’t come to my graduation,” she said.
“I was given an ultimatum, but you can’t live your entire life to make your parents happy.”
They eventually went to therapy to try to understand her, and have since drifted away from Catholicism themselves.
Scarlett accepts that faith gives people comfort and a community.
The rest of it, less so.
“The controlling aspect is what I can’t stand because there are many theories about the church being a system of patriarchal control.”
Why It Matters
Her career move is a business decision dressed as a personal one.
Subscription platforms reward volume and punish absence, and creators working alone all day are quietly discovering that the loneliness has a cost.
In-person services fix two problems at once: they pay more per hour than a feed does, and somebody else is in the room.
Scarlett’s OnlyFans income didn’t stop being useful. It became the floor rather than the whole building.
The story itself is also an asset.
A Catholic schoolgirl who wanted the papacy and got the dungeon travels further than any amount of posting.
What comes next
Creators across adult and non-adult work are pushing off-platform, into events, coaching, bespoke commissions and anything that doesn’t depend on an algorithm having a good day.
Watch whether Scarlett’s dungeon hours overtake her content hours, and whether her regulars’ London commute turns into a waiting list.
The Vatican has not been in touch.
