'True Blood' cast on sex, covering private parts

When a love triangle looms, which side do you choose?

"True Blood" creator Alan Ball wasn't shy about who he thought Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, belonged with.

"I believe that Bill and Sookie are soulmates," Ball said. "I personally root for things to work out between them."

But Charlaine Harris, author of the popular Sookie Stackhouse novels of which the raunchy HBO genre series is based on, had a different opinion.

"Well of course, I'm many, many books ahead ... and things are different in my world," Harris said, referring to the Eric-Sookie coupling that begins early in the book series. A good chunk of the audience preferred that pairing, and made it known.

While the majority of the cast was present, with the addition of new series regular Joe Manganiello, the obvious absence was Alexander Skarsgard. "Someone seems to be missing," Entertainment Weekly's Tim Stack pointed out when all the panelists sat down.

When stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer went offstage, they came back with a life-size cardboard cutout of the Skarsgard -- and not the real thing. Sorry fangbangers, guess Fangtasia's closed for the day.

Nonetheless, the panel was full of entertainment and sex appeal. This wasn't a kid-friendly panel.

At one point, Manganiello shared insider info on what kind of socks he and the other male actors could choose to wear based on what type of angle they were being shot in for their nude scenes. Another point of discussion was Moyer's experience shooting the most "twisted sex scene in 'True Blood' history," which involved a full-body cast (which Moyer took home to play with because "why not?," he said).

Also covered: Is Eric more loyal to Pam or Sookie? While the crowd screamed, "Pam!," the actress who played her went a little further. "It's a different relationship because I'm his child and Sookie is his infatuation. I think he'd choose C, all of the above," Kristin Bauer van Straten said.

Though stories for Season 4 are just being mapped out, Ball hinted, "Everybody goes to therapy. Everybody goes on medication and everyone's very happy," he joked.

As for a possible end game for "True Blood," which counts Anne Rice, Snoop Dogg and Elizabeth Taylor as its fans, Ball said, "I'd love to see the show run as long as it possibly can. I don't want it to get to the point where we have to explain why vampires are aging."