Lots of good advice in this thread for you. Do you have any other sites or is this your very first try at an adult site? I agree with the others about learning how to build freesites and learning how to market your site.
I started my LL without a script, with plain html about 2 years ago. I quickly found out, I could not keep up without a linklist script. I had massive backlong on submissions, and the site pretty much sucked without the script.
A linklist will take a long time to start making money as previously stated, so I'd advise you to learn HTML, and how to build and submit freesites to the linklists. You'll get a much quicker start making money IMHO.