Print market for explicit erotica

There are a number of potential markets, both paper and electronic, depending on the audience it was written for (e.g., male or female, hetero or other, fetish or not).

The Erotica Readers and Writers group (google "erotica", and it'll be one the first page or two of hits) has an authors' resources page, where it collects the guidelines for erotica publishers, and you should be able to narrow your options down from there. I believe there are guidelines or links to the men's magazines there, so you could check the word count, etc. I'm thinking 20K might be too long, but I really don't know their word counts.

JD

Few print publishers take that length of story though some will cobble together a set for an antho. Ellora's Cave and Zane does this type of collection.

You might consider Ruthie's Club. It's not print, it's online but they like stories with something going on besides the sex. They split up longer stories into two or three sections. www.ruthiesclub.com. I can also attest to their stellar editing, professionalism and all around standing as a good erotica market.

If your wanting it to be in print, you could try looking into BlackLace, they are an erotic publisher which tend to publish total fantasy books. I'm not sure on the word count, but it might be worth looking into.