As it seems to keep surfacing here....
On the subject of "pornography"... first, the definition of what is pornography, what is erotica, and what is simply fiction of one type or another with explicit sexuality included seems to rest largely in the individual reader's mind; so that makes it difficult to know what people are talking about when they use the word these days.
For example, Philip Jose Farmer's novels Blown and Flesh were both long considered pornography and still are, in some circles, while not in others. Even some of the pieces in Strange Relations are considered pornography by some... though if so, they are among the strangest pornography I've ever encountered, being alien encounters seen through the lenses of Jung and Freud. Moorcock's The Brothel in Rosenstrasse may also be considered pornography by many, yet it's a fine novel that develops Moorcock's usual themes in a very powerful way. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition has been called pornography, and in fact the first American printing of it was largely pulped for that reason; even Ballard has said it is intended to be pornographic, though not in the usual sense of the word. In his early days, Harlan Ellison wrote a fair number of what were then known as "stiffeners" for the men's magazines; some of these were collected together in the very difficult to find Sex Gang, published under one of his early pseudonyms (which has an amusing story in itself). If I could get my hands on a copy, I'd definitely read it, simply to see how much of Ellison's approach and the themes common to so much of his work show through.
So yes, if a writer I truly liked and whose work I admired wrote something in any genre, I'd give a try, at least. I'm not a fan of pornography itself, but many things are called pornography which, to me, do not fit the term -- that being a purely meretricious attempt to titillate, without any redeeming artistic value or attempt toward honesty in dealing with characterization or human emotion (or, for that matter, any other theme worthy of artistic exploration). Explicit, even graphic, sexuality is not itself pornographic, if it is handled with artistic integrity and honesty; after all, that is a very large part of the human experience, and to shy away from it as being unworthy of such exploration is to create a blind spot toward a very important aspect of being human. (Choosing not to read it because you don't like the subject matter is another thing. The difference lies in simply not going for something because it is not to one's taste, rather than dismissing it as not deserving such artistic treatment.)
