He holds a Doctorate in Social Anthropology (1991) and a BA in Geography and History (1989) from the University of Barcelona. He has studies and research stays at the University of Montpellier, the Central University of Venezuela, the University of Berkeley, and the University of Nanterre-Paris X. Since 2001 he has been the Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Xarxa de Recerca en Sexualitat, Societat , i Salut of the Department of Sociology of the University of Barcelona. His research activity has focused on Sexuality, body, AIDS, health, Homophobia, gender perspective applied to men, and on Male sex work, informal economy. He is an expert in the management of qualitative social research techniques. Her most prominent research projects include "The changes in public policies around female sexuality from Franco to democracy: from repression to public policies of equality", "Imported love, migrants for love: the constitution of couples between Spaniards and women from Latin America and Eastern Europe in the framework of the current transformation of the gender system in Spain "," The welfare processes in transplanted persons "," Sociocultural study on the personal experience of the death of cancer patients in the "palmative care unit", "L'echangisme: Entre commercer du sexe et utopie", "Validation of a questionnaire to assess the quality of life of informal caregivers of dependent persons", "Assistance processes in the case of AIDS: Therapeutic itineraries, moral career and informal assistance ", the" Monitoring of the prevalence and prevalence of HIV prevention HIV infection in the community of homosexuals ". He has numerous books including The Crisis of Heterosexuality (2007), Heroes; scientists; heterosexuals, and gays - Men in Gender Perspective (2006), Sexualities - Diversity and Social Control (2006), Sociology of Sexuality (2003) Sociology of Sexuality: Studies on Sexual Diversity (2002), Participant Observation and 2002), The Crisis of Heterosexuality (2000), and The Pink Society (1996 and 1991).