cloaca - Hemipenes

So, I took my male pastel out about a week 1/2 ago to give him a break from my big girl. Well, they weren't locked or anything, but when I took him out the red area where the hemipenes was sticking out and looked a bit swollen. I instantly put him on wet paper towels so it wouldn't stick to anything as he was moving about. I noticed today it looks like he doesn't even have spurs anymore.

Anyone else ever seen this? If so, what was the issue????

So no one has even heard of this or anything similar???

The area was probably still swollen a little bit from copulating. Everything doesn't just shrink back to normal right away lol. Does it look normal now?

Their spurs can and will fall off, not a big deal.

Ok, and it's not swollen, but it does have a different color to it, and the vent doesn't seem to open as much as normal, but I wasn't pressing too hard as I don't want to hurt him if its still messed up...

OK, heres an update on him:

I was checking him out today and was inspecting that area, when applying barely any pressure as I was going to pop him, these really long nasty looking white things came out, and the hemipenes looked very swollen. So, I am sure you are right about it still just being swollen after intercourse. But I still want to know what these long white things were, could it have been bedding?? I am pretty sure it was not sperm plugs, but then again I have never seen them lol

Do you keep them on aspen?

She is on aspen, so when he was in there yes, when I take him out its normally newspaper, right now paper towels.

Could it have been some aspen that got in there? The stuff that came out that is.