The League is also calling on members to complain to Moore about the exhibit.

Patrick Meagher and his wife Alba Pascual-Meagher, both Catholics, attended a media preview before the opening.

“If I hadn’t gone and my wife had come back and told me what she had seen, I would have been convinced she was exaggerating,” Meagher said.

The exhibit includes photographs of men’s and women’s genitalia, as well as animations of a boy and a girl masturbating.

“I couldn’t believe the stuff I was seeing,” said Meagher, who added the exhibit is “teaching kids to experiment with sex, multiple partners, anal sex, ‘friends with favours,’ homosexual activity and masturbation.”

Yves St-Onge, vice president for public affairs at the museum, said the exhibition is well-marked so that no one will inadvertently enter it. 

“We have established it as a segregated area, monitored by an employee,” he said. “Every visitor, especially school groups, will be informed.”

St-Onge said the exhibit was designed in Montreal, where it first appeared, after extensive consultation with social scientists, doctors, nurses, public health practitioners, teachers and government officials.

St-Onge disagrees the exhibit encourages homosexuality or other sexual behaviour. It does not encourage people to question their sexual orientation, or experiment, it merely provides the plain facts from a biological and psychological point of view, he said.