Did my erotica just become women's/literary fiction?

I was originally just planning to wing it with my first erotica story, but now that I've spent a little time coming up with more of an outline and background, well... it's feeling a lot more like women's fiction or literary fiction than erotica. Is that okay? Are there many erotica books out there with a legit story line that is more than just a way to jump between sex scenes? Should I remove the erotic parts completely and just market it as women's/literary fiction? I'm so confused!

Edit 1: I will admit that I haven't read much variety in erotica (just stories with a very basic plot to get from Sexual Encounter A to Sexual Encounter B), so that's probably why I don't know the answer.

Edit 2: Would it be possible to write a non-erotica novel to set up the entire story and tell a lot about the main character and then write a few erotic novellas from the perspective of characters involved in the first novel (with their own separate stories)? Could that work?

edutton said:

So, basically, write slash-fic for your own mainstream characters? It could be done (heck, it probably has been done)...

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It wouldn't be characters of the same gender, so it wouldn't be slash fiction... but along those lines, yes.

It's just that erotica is a small part of the wider, tragic story of the main (female) character, and I'm wondering if it just wouldn't do as well as erotica... or if it would do REALLY well as erotica for readers who want more of a satisfying story and less of the "let me get you off" kind.

From what I can tell on Amazon, there's nothing under the Erotica category that my book would fall into...

Edit: I didn't plan at all on NOT writing erotica right now, so maybe I should write my erotic novellas first and then write the non-erotica novel later? It would almost be backwards. Would my erotica readers not want to read a non-erotic story, though, even if they wanted to know more about the character? GAH! I am full of confusion and questions.

Thank you all for your input! I certainly do need to read more high-quality erotica (I was mostly choosing from whatever was free, at the time). I think I've decided to continue writing what I've already started: erotica short novels/novellas about various characters who are involved with the central character I mentioned in the first post. Later, I'll write a non-erotic novel about the central character, which will explain what she's gone through and how she got to be where she is when the other characters come into her life. It will be a gamble, and I'm not sure if my erotica readers will want to read a non-erotic book, but I'm hoping that, if they are intrigued by her enough, they'll want to read about her life. If not, oh well! Someone will read it!