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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, a mock up of a luxury suite in a brothel is seen at the 'Red Light Secrets' museum in Amsterdam. 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 Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, 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 in Amsterdam. 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 Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, the entrance of the 'Red Light Secrets' prostitution museum is seen, right, in Amsterdam. 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 Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, Ilonka Stakelborough, an escort who heads a sex-workers union called 'the Geisha Institute,' poses in front of a window in a mock-up of a prostitution window at the 'Red Light Secrets' museum in Amsterdam. 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 Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 a hologram of a beckoning prostitute is shown at the entrance of the 'Red Light Secrets' museum in Amsterdam. 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 Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, tourists pack the narrow streets of Amsterdam’s famed Red Light District near the entrance of the 'Red Light Secrets' museum, left, in Amsterdam. On any given evening, thousands of tourists visit 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 Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, the entrance of the 'Red Light Secrets' prostitution museum is seen, center, in Amsterdam. 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 Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)
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Russian Federation Chef de Mission Alexander Kravtsov, left, Olympic Village Mayor Elena Isinbaeva, center, and Russian President Vladimir Putin applaud during a ceremony at the Coastal Cluster Athletes Olympic Village ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Pascal Le Segretain, Pool)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Olympic Village Mayor Elena Isinbaeva while visiting the Coastal Cluster Athletes Olympic Village ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Pascal Le Segretain, Pool)
