Mr Berlusconi, 69, reportedly made the vow at a campaign rally in Sardinia with a popular local TV preacher, Father Massimiliano Pusceddu, who had praised him for opposing gay marriage and defending family values and promised his support, prompting the PM's comments.
"I will try to meet your expectations, and I promise from now on, two-and-a-half months of absolute sexual abstinence, until 9 April," he said.
Mr Berlusconi has been criticised in the past for using sexual innuendo and making sexist jokes.
Last June, the prime minister stunned the Finnish government by saying he had used his "playboy" charms to persuade female President Tarja Halonen to give up attempts to house the EU food agency in Helsinki.
And in 2003 he told US business leaders they should invest in Italy because it had "beautiful secretaries... superb girls".
Correspondents say the twice-married Italian leader sees himself as something of a ladies' man.
Veronica Lario ~ no sex until April
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