Paquin, Skarsgard & Moyer Get Naked For Rolling Stone (UPDATED)

True Blood stars Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard are no strangers to nudity on the show, so I suppose it’s not a surprise that they’re naked on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone. What is a surprise is that I managed to type any words whatsoever to go with this image since my brain has turned to mush.

Updated 08.19.01: Thanks to VDSource, we have scans of this issue in the Gallery.

Oh wait, there’s an article to go with the photo:

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?”

Read the full article, and see more photos, in the September 2 issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands Wednesday, August 18.