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Now a question on the side, has anyone here read a pure porn book / story (one where sex doesn't serve the plot but the plot serves the sex and the purpose of the book is to arouse rather than entertain in the classic sense) and found themselves carried away by the non-sex plot (such as a fight against crime) and wished that the same author wrote another book only about that and without the sex (even though you started reading it because of the sex)
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I kind of felt like that about the Sleeping Beauty trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (aka Anne Rice). I actually got interested in the story.
As far as the original question, my definition of "adult themed" has changed over the years. I think society's definition has changed also. Back in the mid 70's I read Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers. Quite steamy for the times, it was considered adult themed. Lots of pretty descriptive sex and not always between the h/H. I recommended it to my mom, who had never censored my reading. She said she might have objected if she had known in advance what I was reading. (I wasn't stupid I only told her about it after the fact.
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Course by today's standards SSL might be considered pretty tame. There are some erotica/romance authors who I find pretty good - Angela Knight comes to mind because I just read something by her. I want to try the Merry Gentry books by Anita Blake, lots of people like them although I guess the last couple have been disappointing.
I also read "The Pearl" (not the one by Steinbeck) way back when it would probably have been illegal for me to own it. Really liked it. Also liked A Man with a Maid and the sequels as well as Fanny Hill. (those Victorians were not as repressed as we like to think.)
I don't really like much of the pure sex stuff being published today. I much prefer the "erotica" which has at least a pretense of a plot. Red Sage and Ellora's Cave both publish some good stuff.
To the OP, thanks for starting this discussion. There's some sites I'll be checking out later.