Doctors don't have to tell 18-year-old "Rose" (who doesn't want to reveal her real name) the importance of using a condom every time she has sex. STDs can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, which can result in infertility, said Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, left. STDs can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, which can result in infertility, said Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, left. "There really is a limit to how much you can trust somebody," the young woman said. At 14, Rose contracted two sexually transmitted diseases: gonorrhea and chlamydia. She said she got the STDs from her first boyfriend. "We used condoms at first. Then, me being naïve, we stopped," Rose recalled. "I thought he was only having sex with me." The STDs went untreated and eventually developed into pelvic inflammatory disease, or PID, a condition that can lead to infertility.

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