To answer everyone's question, yes you can die. This is probably going to be too weird for people, but after looking it up online I decided to call my friend who does tatoos and piercings. She was a little pissed cuz it was like 1am for her... but once I said "remember the weird guy? he did something..and I need an adult" she was all ears.
Ok so here's what I learned:
1) my friend has done this piercing only once before; she said it was awful and she refuses to do them anymore and makes a co-worker do them
2) she has never ever seen/heard of a man getting this done. She's done one, seen a couple, heard of several... all women.
3) she says they're really popular for women (especially women) but some men get them
4) yes, you can die from the infection they cause, and infection is pretty common because it's impossible to keep that area clean. She said even a fart can cause an infection. OH and she says they tell the people that get them to not wear underwear for the first couple days and to wear this taped down sterile patch there instead. You should change it every 8 hours. Yeah.
There's a longer story, much much longer story. I'm horrified that Chris did this now. I have learned this I NEVER wanted to learn. It's at this point that I can say that I am truly worried for Chris's health. It's not exaggeration that you can die from this. If it gets infected (and we know it's SUPER likely) and you don't get medical help, you'll get so sick you'll likely die. I asked her if he took it out now would he be safe. She said it depends on when he got it. If it's been a couple weeks and it's not infected already, he should be fine. If it's only been a days (or infected already) taking it out could be a bad idea. Taking it out too early can cause a tear between the two holes (it's a surface piercing) which will create a large hole that will just fester... and then you get sick and probably die if you don't get medical help.
TL

R I'm horrified, I'm scared, and I'm super disgusted. I also have a shit ton of other information from her that's just... I don't even KNOW anymore. If there's any other questions besides "Can he die?" I have the answers. I'm going to go puke my guts out now and bleach my... everything