The analysis of interviews from an exploratory investigation on male socialization leads to the hypothesis that the socialization of Martinican men is marked by the near-absence of learning to express or reveal the intimate self and by the codified over-expression of an ostentatious virility. Thus, the young male does not benefit from the transmission of communication modes related to the revealing of his intimate self, with the traditional frameworks of relational learning constituting the vectors of the suppression or holding back of such intimateness. However this non-learning or repression of expressing the intimate self have a high cost in terms of personal discomfort and interpersonal conflict.