Null gave me the go-ahead, so I'm posting the pic of Chis's infected taint.
As you can see, it's not horrible, but it's definitely starting to get bad and needs to be looked at by a doctor. This was after he re-pierced himself with the safety pin.
On a slice of irony,
from the original patch of skin there, the barbell finished slipping that apart, and now
visually, I have the appearance of a vaginal/labia lip line behind the frontmost sphere of
the ring there. So, on the bright side, I am a step closer to having my wish of a vaginal
opening for myself.
Oh, well. The ends justify the means sometimes.
You know, it does vaguely resemble a vagina, but if his piercing is where his clitoris is supposed to be, then it's a little... er... upside-down. But hey, if you stick your "un-clit" where your taint is, I guess you can't complain if your soul vagina grows in upside-down.
It's more like, after the fact, when he had a gash in his junk, he mentioned how it looks like a vagina. Like that was a bonus to the whole ordeal.
So Chris simultaneously held these two beliefs:
1) The piercing isn't supposed to do that
2) It worked out for the best
People on the Parkourdude subforum sometimes say that they have a hard time believing the figures involved aren't pulling everyone's legs because they will oftentimes make bizarrely glib remarks in serious situations, like Eli telling his mom it's illegal for her to go into his cabin without his permission because he "saw it on Judge Judy" while she's screaming at him for disappearing to an overseas warzone for several months without telling anybody.
If Chris is any sort of standard, the bar for cognitive dissonance is
pretty low, especially when you're talking about exceptional individuals. They're literally
too stupid to recognize the amount of danger they're in, even when it should be blindingly obvious. I'm sure Chris was informed that his piercing could get infected and signs to watch out for, but when he sees it get into the state pictured above, the first thing he thinks isn't, "I wonder if it's getting infected," it's, "Huh, look how it came out, shaped like a vagina."
