Ah, I guess you haven't seen the movie "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas". In it, the "villian", played by Dom Deluise, is a television "journalist" who crusades to get the "Chicken Ranch" (whorehouse) shut down.
Said journalist purported to be "...shocked, I tell you shocked" to find that there was a whorehouse in Texas.
But I "do" agree with your comparing France and the UN to whore-houses (although whores are more honest--at least you get SOMETHING for your money--that not being the case with France and the UN).