Where is the Elmore Leonard of porn?

I've not been posting much recently as I have been writing. The next installment of Crooked Sabre is a full comic length story and I've been trying to concentrate on writing, as odd as that might seem. Criticising the plot of pornography is trite, but it is also a bit weak to pretend that storytelling is irrelevant and porn must always just fall back on cliches. Thinking about this got me thinking about Elmore Leonard

Leonard's ear for cracking dialogue transformed many a dull and cliched scene, first in westerns and then in crime fiction. He can take a dull, by the numbers gunfight (usually with the kind of “you're going down”, “you'll never take me alive” nonsense) and turn it into a witty exchange of quips which, crucially, grounds us in a feeling of reality and tells us something about the characters. Of course Quentin Tarantino famously 'borrowed' this style in Pulp Fiction, but his take was less character oriented and more about pop culture references, but again this style can disrupt our expectations, make us see a scene we've seen a hundred times in a different light.

I don't tend to write dialogue in sex scenes. I've always found dirty talk to be silly and something that takes me out of the moment and I don't think 'fuck me harder' or 'oh yeah, suck that dick', really adds anything to the visual. But writing doesn't have to be about dialogue nor scenario (Is the pool ever going to get cleaned?) but can be about the relationship between characters. I know that sounds very chick-lit but I don't mean the basket of flowers or the “why did you say that to my parents three weeks ago” kind of relationship, but a basic focus on the characters as individual beings with motivation, history, beliefs and desires.

There is a great scene in a porno that I've seen somewhere where the bed breaks in the middle of fucking and we get a transition from a fairly formulaic anal scene to a sudden human moment, two guys with erections surprised, then laughing and hugging each other. It suddenly broke up the by-the-numbers scene and said something about these two people as performers. While it was an accident, I think these kinds of moments can also be written, especially in written or comics porn. An event, dialogue, even a change in the sexual dynamics, which connects the audience back to the characters.

So, where is the Elmore Leonard of porn when we need him (or her)? I'd like to see porn evolve, not become 'art' or anything, but just be more self-reflexive about its craft. It could be that there are creators who are doing this – I can think of more comics creators than film directors (comickers like Sean Z, Jon Macy, Steve MacIsaac and many others) but that might be about the different economic demands of these different media. If anyone knows of other examples, please let me know.