The movie begins with Senator Gianni Puppis winning his party's nomination to run for president. A pawn of special interests and lobbyists,t he senator has dedicated himself -- body and soul -- to politics leaving no room in his life for distractions like women.

Unfortunately, this extreme all-or-nothing tactic has addled his mind and the senator's subsconscious begins venting his sexual frustrations without his realizing it. Finally, his luck runs out as he is caught on film grabbing the ass of a foreign dignitary.

The Senator goes on a spiritual retreat to meet with a therapist in a remote monastery. The friar is cloistered alone with only an order of German nuns for company.

This setting is no help to the Senator whose conditions worsens as he sleepwalks and violates 21 out of the 22 nuns in the cloister. The 22nd nun, Sister Hildegarde (Laura Antonelli), returns later in the film to beg the senator to whip her into submission. Ever since he left, she has been plagued with temptations about what a coupling might have been like.

Her solution to his problem is for him to whip her until he is disgusted by women (thus curing him) and for her to then whip him, curing her of her lustful temptations.

The plan fails as the Senator falls in love with her and decides to abandon politics all together, that is until his biggest political backer, Cardinal Marvidi (Lionel Stander -- perhaps best known to American audiences as "Max" on TV's Hart to Hart or the voice of "Kup" from Transformers the Movie; Nunsploitation fans may remember him as Don Nini from the Gloria Guida film La Novizia) reveals the rather ghastly methods that have been used to put the Senator in power in the first place.

Blackmailed into continuing his political career, the Senator grimly takes on his new position as president, but in the end, no one really cares.

A funny movie with a grim, depressing ending, The Senator Likes Women has its fair share of humor, biting political commentary and sizzling eroticism.

The nuns are hot and their German accents make them seem that much more exotic. Unfortunately, the night the Senator defiles 21 nuns in not shown at all in the movie. Rather, it is alluded to in a dream in which he fondles and crushes oversized apples. The orgy is revealed in dialogue when the nuns go to confession the next morning.

Out of frustration, the friar half-jokingly closes the confessional due to "sin-overload!"

In the dream sequence, there is an awesome scene in which the nuns line up like soldiers to have their asses inspected, the head nun barking orders like a drill sergeant. They do an about face and the senator proceeds to inspect their bottoms.

As I watched the story unfold, I couldn't help but be reminded of contemporary American politicians, most notably Bill Clinton, but also former U.S. Congressman John LaFalce who reputedly also had a penchant for pinching ladies on the ass including -- according to one report -- former First Lady, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The story was funny and the nuns were sexy. Though I would have preferred the sex to be more raunchy and overt, it was still better than some other films I've seen in this genre. Laura Antonelli was superb in her role as the frustrated nun who comes to tempt the recovering Senator, especially when she strips off her habit and begs him to whip her.