True Blood stars strip for blood-spattered Rolling Stone cover

True Blood's sexy stars spilled their guts and bared their bodies for a blood-spattered Rolling Stone cover.

Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer stripped off for a racy photo shoot in the September issue of the magazine.

And the stars of the hit HBO TV show were happy to talk about vampire sex.

"If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn't one before," said 40-year-old Moyer.

"It's a de-virginisation - 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, plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?"

And Paquin, 28, was also eager to chime in on being bitten by a vampire and her love for body piercing.

"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."