True Blood stars Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer go naked for Rolling Stone



The only thing more shocking than a Rolling Stone cover featuring True Blood stars Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgard and Stephen Moyer completely naked and covered in blood, is what they have to say about it.

Both Anna and Stephen happily discuss their views on vampire sex in the magazine's September issue cover story.

'If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn't one before,' says Stephen.



Vamping it up: Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer naked and dripping blood on the latest cover of Rolling Stone out this week

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'It's a de-virginisation - creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood.'



He adds: 'And there's something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it.



'So that's pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive... plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?'

As to enduring being bitten by vampires, Anna notes: 'I’ve had ten piercings in my ear, and a belly button pierce, and a tongue ring.



'My tongue, as it turns out, is not really appropriate for piercing, because the webbing is too close to the front, and the bottom barbell kept hitting against my teeth – clank, clank, clank.



'And it gave me a lisp, which isn’t great as an actress.'



The creator of the show, Alan Ball, also weighs in, saying: 'The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous.



'To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence.'

The quote is obviously a thinly veiled comment on Stephenie Meyer's smash hit Twilight series of books and movies.



Meyer is a Mormon and in her books, the vampires in question have to abstain from sex with their human counterparts so as not to kill them.

And Ball isn't afraid of alienating the core teenage audience that is drawn to the Twilight projects.



True Blood already has a huge following on the HBO channel.



'I'm 53,' says Ball. 'I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.'

Fancy a bite? Alexander Skarsgard (centre, pictured with Kristin Bauer and Patrick Gallagher) in a scene from the show





