The theater of Bernard-Marie Koltès dramatizes the contemporary world as a destructured, disenchanted, pitiless place. In this perspective, one of his “motifs” may seem surprising because of its rather traditional nature: that involving the “honor” of young women expressed explicitly in terms of virginity for them, and in terms of the need to preserve their reputation for their older brothers. A short-lived honor, because the sisters would be deflowered. We propose in this article to study the presence of this theme from the point of view of ethnocriticism, as Koltès clearly pays careful attention to the question of “first times” narrated as “ritual initiations.” But is it not possible to see these “passages,” which are always violent, transgressive, and incomplete, as a sign of the impossibility of all alliances?