A British town council election candidate faces disciplinary action after sending an explicit dominatrix-style image of him dressed as a naked cat to a female rival.

Kinky Dean Stone messaged his fellow election hopeful, married mother of two Siobhan Strode, with the bizarre image on Facebook.

Using the social media’s Messenger app, the Liberal Democrat wished her good luck for the upcoming election and then asked if there was “anything embarrassing” in her past.

Labor candidate Strode replied that she was “too boring” to have any skeletons in the closet.

It prompted Stone to send her the kinky picture appearing to show him taking part in erotic roleplay with an unidentified female.

The photograph was accompanied by the question “your opinion on this then?”

Strode, 32, of Umberleigh, Devon — a small village in southwest England, about 200 miles west of London — was on a family camping trip when she received the indecent image.

She said she was deeply shocked to receive the picture from someone she only knew through the recent campaign in Great Torrington, Devon.

She said: “I don’t even know what I thought. It is repulsive.”

“I am a nice person and I find it really odd that someone would send such an unsolicited image.”

“I did not in any way encourage him to send me a photograph.”

A few days later, Strode informed her campaign manager, James Craigie, who contacted the Liberal Democrats.

This prompted an unreserved apology from Stone, who admitted it was a “breach of acceptable boundaries of social media communication” and promised to “refrain from any future similar communication.”

The Labor candidate had intended to leave the matter there until she saw comments by Stephen Potts, a member of the Torridge and West Devon Liberal Democrat Executive who was overseeing local candidates.

He said in an email that “due to the sensitivity” of the matter, he had taken “senior LGBT advice” and this was why Stone’s apology had been delayed.

Labor was angered by this remark as neither of the two candidates is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Craigie said it suggests that behavior such as sending erotic material to strangers is to be expected from LGBT people.

He added: “Were I minded to, I could take that as an insult to the entire LGBT community in suggesting they are all perverts and send indecent images as a matter of course.”

Stone, who lives in Great Torrington, was one of two Liberal Democrats contesting the election, along with three Labor candidates and one independent.

Three out of the six hopefuls will be elected to the town council after the votes are counted Friday following closure of the polls at 10 p.m. Thursday.

Craigie originally said the matter had not been reported to the police by Labor, though Devon and Cornwall police were informed Wednesday, according to Strode.

He said the decision to go public came after what he called a “victim blaming apology” from the Liberal Democrats.

“The initial reaction was shock and surprise and (Siobhan) took several days to bring it to my attention,” he added.

“It is her first election and she was uncertain about what to do. I thought that the Lib Dems should be aware that this sort of behavior was not really appropriate.”

Craigie added; “It was incredibly poor judgment from the candidate to send such an image.”

“Whatever his sexual activities are is up to him but making them public is bizarre and worrying.”

Torridge District Council, which ran the election, said it was aware of the issue between the two candidates.

Returning Officer Jenny Wallace said: “The council is aware of the situation and we have been in contact with both parties but this is not a matter for the council’s election team.”

Stone has been contacted for further comment.