The central irony of this film...

A great deal is made of the contrast between the sensual harem women who used to inhabit the old palace, and the chaste lives of the nuns who come to live there.

The irony is that the women of the harem were hardly getting more action than the nuns!

In the picture of the palace's old days, about a hundred women were shown, and they all had to compete for the attentions of one man, their mutual husband or master. The common husband typically loses interest in most of his wives after a new crop of honeys come along, and most of the women there are spending their lives raising their children, being denied access to any men other than their neglectful husband, and being as frustrated as Sister Ruth.




" Jack, you have debauched my sloth! "