The article discusses the infantile socialization related to the construction of the sexuality and to the gender identity reproduced and re-elaborated by children, especially to that femininity standards imagined and demanded by girls themselves. These standards are present in the games and jokes played between boys and girls in a beach community formed by a black and poor people majority in Bahia. This discussion is based on etnografic material collected in field research through observations and interviews with children's groups aged between 07 and 14 years.
Gender; Socialization; Sexuality