Okay, this isn't really advice, precisely...more a request for some opinions.

Here's the jist of it. I want to write erotica. Not just internet erotica, written, book erotica. Yes, I want to get paid for writing the hopeless smut that I'm going to write anyway.

My writing, though typically laced with enough plot and solid, non-erotic content to be a book, is definitely of the hardcore variety. I don't like just simple intercourse; I like to have a bit of everything. Oral, anal, random cumshots in conspicuous places, occasional instances of partner swapping and/or three-ways...all written in as descriptive and lewd fashion as I think I can get awya with and still be taken seriously.

And herein lies my question/uncertainty. I've not read a lot of offline, professional erotica...mostly because I'm a: lazy and b: don't really get into the kind of dramatic tone and soft core sex. I'm definitely a guy writer...I write a lot of action/adventury stuff, and my sex is hardcore (as I've already stated, but shall state again for the purpose of being painfully clear). So I'm not really hyper aware of how the published erotica market it set up.

I'm basicly asking this; with the aforementioned facts considered (and ignoring that I can't write for shit for a moment), would I ever have a chance of getting published, and having a semi successful writing career in such stories? Is there a market out there for more hardcore sex novels, or is the only thing selling the watered down soft stuff?

If you have actual functional knowledge, I'd love to hear that, but if you just have an opinion on whether or not you'd be willing to fork over money for a piece of hardcore text, then please, let me hear what you have to say

C.B.