The purpose of the statute is clear. It is for the protection of youth and to combat juvenile delinquency. The subject matter includes pictures, books, pamphlets and magazines of a certain type, namely, those which exploit or are principally made up of descriptions of illicit sex or sexual immorality or which are obscene, lewd, lascivious or indecent. Specifically the section is designed to prevent such publications from passing into the hands of boys and girls of an impressionable age and is directed against those who are dealing in such publications as a business. This is clear from the preamble of the statute when it was passed and from the language of the statute itself. The present statute,
§ 11–31–10, is a section of Public Laws 1956, chapter 3686, approved April 9, 1956, which was in amendment of and in addition to G.L.1938, chap. 610, and became sec. 48 of that chapter. The preamble of P.L.1956, chap. 3686, reads as follows: