Today’s kids are subjected to more sexual imagery than ever before, but it’s a different story when the material is distributed by school officials.

That’s what happened in Creston, B.C., where a public health nurse is apologizing for accidentally handing out a sex-education guide that contained graphic images.

Those images even included a bondage scene between cartoon animals.

The “adult booklet” was distributed to students in Grades 6 and 7 after a session on sexual health, but parents were shocked when students brought the booklet home.

“I was shocked when I looked at it,” said Christine Perkins, superintendent of the Kootenay Lake School District, adding the booklet clearly states it’s for mature audiences.

“I think of myself as fairly open minded and liberal and I was appalled,” she says.

Produced by a Toronto group called CATIE — the Canadian Aids Treatment Information Exchange, the booklet is intended to distribute information about sexually transmitted diseases and drug use during sex.

The Interior Health Authority has since stated that all material used for future classes will be reviewed by Interior Health and the school district before it’s provided to students.

-With files from The Canadian Press