Scarlett Jones was going to be the first female Pope.
She locks men in cages now.
The model, who has more than 567,000 Instagram followers at @itsmescarlettjones, went to Catholic school and grew up sheltered, sitting through talks from visiting nuns about vocations and how a calling finds you.
One of those talks stuck. Not in the way anyone intended.
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“I suppose stripping turned out to be my calling. What can I say?” she said.
A Catholic girlhood with high expectations
The Church shaped most of her childhood, and she assumed it always would.
“I’ve always had high expectations of myself, so when I was Catholic, I believed I would become the first female Pope,” she said.
Amsterdam, and the moral dilemma outside the door
A trip to Amsterdam put her on a pavement outside a strip club, arguing with herself about whether to go in.
“Being Catholic, I was so nervous about seeing my first strip show and was literally having a moral dilemma,” she said.
She went in anyway.
“As soon as I watched it, I was completely enamoured and knew immediately that it was something I wanted to do.
I went back to university, found a club in Sheffield and went for a trial shift, and the rest is history. I loved it.”
OnlyFans paid, but it was quiet
Adult films came next, then OnlyFans. Working alone from home turned out to be lonelier than she expected, so she started following dominatrixes on Instagram and listening to podcasts about professional domination.
She took her first clients in October 2025. Regulars now travel to see her at a professional dungeon.
“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.”
The client who paid to be ignored
Men book her to take control. Some want nothing more than to hand theirs over and be forgotten about.
“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, as reported by Creatorzine.
“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 graduation nobody came to
A friend told her parents she had started stripping.
They demanded she stop, and she agreed. Then she went back to dancing without telling them.
They found out a second time. She refused to stop twice.
“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.”
Her parents eventually booked therapy to work out how to understand her.
They have since moved away from their Catholic beliefs entirely.
She can see what religion gives people. Comfort, a community that shows up. The rest she has no patience for.
“The controlling aspect is what I can’t stand because there are many theories about the Church being a system of patriarchal control,” she said.
Why It Matters
Creatorzine’s read: the loneliness line is the one creators should notice.
Jones did not leave OnlyFans because it stopped paying.
She added an in-person service because sitting in a bedroom filming yourself for an algorithm wears people down, and the fix she found was other humans in a room.
That pattern is showing up across the creator economy, from subscription performers taking bookings to YouTubers opening studios and running live events.
Platform income is flexible and isolating in equal measure, and the people surviving longest in it tend to be the ones who build something offline before the burnout arrives.
The family cost sits alongside it. Creators who work publicly under their own face rarely get to choose when the people who raised them find out, and Jones lost years to a conversation that started with a friend talking.
Her parents came round eventually. The Church did not survive it.
For now she is taking bookings, building regulars and keeping one eye on the papacy.
“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.”
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