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Amsterdam's prostitution museum

/ CBS News

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A mock-up of a luxury suite in a brothel is seen at the "Red Light Secrets" museum in Amsterdam,  Feb. 4, 2014.  

On any given evening, thousands of tourists stroll down the narrow streets of Amsterdam's famed Red Light District, gawking at ladies in lingerie who work behind windows, making a living selling sex for money. 

Now a small educational museum is opening in heart of the district that aims to show reality from the other side of the glass. 

Organizer Melcher de Wind says the museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. 



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A hologram of a beckoning prostitute is shown at the entrance of the "Red Light Secrets" museum in Amsterdam, Feb. 4, 2014.

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Ilonka Stakelborough, an escort who heads a sex-workers union called "the Geisha Institute," talks to a reporter during an interview in a typical "peeskamer," which is Dutch for "workroom" at the "Red Light Secrets" museum, Feb. 4, 2014.

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The entrance of the "Red Light Secrets" prostitution museum is seen, center, in Amsterdam, Feb. 4, 2014.

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Ilonka Stakelborough poses in front of a window in a mock-up of a prostitution window at the "Red Light Secrets" museum in Amsterdam, Feb. 4, 2014.

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A door woman talks to tourists at the entrance of the "Red Light Secrets" museum, Feb. 4, 2014.

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Actors playing interested tourists, watch the perspective of a prostitute working behind a window at the "Red Light Secrets" museum in Amsterdam, Feb. 4, 2014.

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A film showing prostitutes in their daily lives, right, and clothes prostitutes wore earlier in the 20th century, left, are shown at the "Red Light Secrets" museum, Feb. 4, 2014.

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Ilonka Stakelborough talks to a reporter during an interview in a mock-up of a prostitution window at the "Red Light Secrets" museum, Feb. 4, 2014.

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A hologram of a beckoning prostitute is shown at the entrance of the "Red Light Secrets" museum, Feb. 4, 2014 

Amsterdam

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The entrance of the "Red Light Secrets" prostitution museum is seen, right, in Amsterdam, Feb. 4, 2014.
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