'True Blood' Stars Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin And Stephen Moyer Get Bloody Naked For Rolling Stone

Despite how incredibly awesome Sunday's episode of "True Blood" was, there has been one major element of the show missing this season that was built up too incredibly much last season. Where the hell is a — fantasized or not — Sookie and Eric hook up? In fact, at this point, we're so desperate that we would even take a little will-they/won't-they sexual tension to toy with our expectations.

Looks like the folks over at Rolling Stone were facing similar frustrations, but their solution was oh so much better than our boring complaints. They grabbed Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard to cover the September 2 issue of the mag (out on newsstands tomorrow), took their clothes, covered them in blood, and posed them in a more provocative position than we could have possibly dreamed of. Note that they even included a full-frontal of Alexander's beautiful abs.

So while Alexander's face seems to be whispering to us, "Do me," and we're all screaming back, "Yes," what's even better is that the article that accompanies the cover is full of gems like Stephen referring to a women's, uh, womanly parts, and Alan Ball explaining why "True Blood's" sexuality appeals to him over, say, "Twilight's."

"To me, vampires are sex," Alan told Rolling Stone. "I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed."

The "Twilight" comparison's don't stop there (yes, we're getting to the womanly part, so brace yourselves). "True Blood," like all vampire culture in one form or another, is about sex, so Stephen decided to get a bit explicit and break down why vampire sex is so hot, minute detail by minute detail.

"If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn't one before," he explained. "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." Then he laughed a little. "Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?"

Were you able to get more out of that than Stephen Moyer calling Robert Pattinson hot? Do you, like us, hope that the Rolling Stone cover foreshadows some events soon to come on "True Blood"?

Tags Alan Ball, Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin, Rolling Stone, Stephen Moyer, True Blood, Twilight