Alan Ball: 'Vampires a metaphor for sex'

True Blood creator Alan Ball has said that vampires are a metaphor for sex.

Speaking at the Paley Centre for Media, Ball claimed that the sex scenes in his HBO series have a purpose.

"To me, vampires and the notion of vampires as a metaphor is sex," he said. "Of course that's going to have to be a part of it and that's part of the appeal. That's why people love vampires, because they're sexy.

"Even in the Victorian era it was a metaphor for sex that people couldn't talk about, so it doesn't make sense to me to not go there when that's basically what the subject matter is all about to begin with."

Ball added: "It doesn't mean that we put sex in there just for the purpose of sex - that's not that interesting - but whenever there's sex in there it seems real and adult and it's actually about something."

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