The headline story for the latest cover of Rolling Stone’s reads “The Joy of Vampire Sex: ‘True Blood’,” but for TRUE True Blood fans, it doesn’t matter. At this point with three episodes left in season 3 we have one question. What the hell is Sookie, really? Although that question is not answered in the article, one important subject matter is covered – why sex is the centerpiece of the show.

As one commenter stated, “this cover has all things that a cover needs, shock value, a great show, and hot actors.” While the full article is not available, below is an excerpt which includes sensual secrets from the show’s creator and cast. The full story is available on newsstands today.

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous, True Blood creator Alan Ball says. “To me, vampires are sex,” he says. “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.” On his show, every available orifice is used for intercourse: gay, straight, between humans and supernatural beings, and supernatural being on supernatural being, whether he be werewolf, dog or an enormous Minotaur-looking being called a maenad. None of the sex is quite as good as vampire sex, though, which can happen at the astonishing rhythm of 120 bpm while simultaneously devouring one’s neck and making your eyes roll back into your head. Says Stephen Moyer — who plays Bill Compton, the undead Southern Civil War Veteran — “If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before. 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.” He laughs a little. “Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?”

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