"True Blood" Rolling Stone Cover Story Talks Vampire Sex

NEW YORK (CBS) Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard of HBO's "True Blood" got naked and bloody for the Sept. 2 cover of Rolling Stone. And inside the magazine, the talk turned to vampire sex appeal.

Creator Alan Ball told the magazine that "vampires are sex" and the idea of celibate vampires - a possible dig at the more chaste characters in the "Twilight" saga - is ridiculous.

"I don't get a vampire story about abstinence," he said in a portion of the cover story posted on Rolling Stone's website on Tuesday. "I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed."

Moyer, who plays undead Civil War veteran Bill Compton on the show, put vampires' sex appeal in more technical terms.

"If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn't one before," he said. "It's a de-virginization -- breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. 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."

However, the leading man seems to know he has some sexy vampire competition, adding, "Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?"

The magazine is now available on newsstands.