When individuals acquire STDs, it is a problem that not only affects the person’s physical health, but it also affects their emotional and sexual health as well. Although there are numerous adults that end up acquiring STDs, the hardest groups of individuals that end up facing this type of problem are young adults. Unfortunately, this is because many young adults are very irresponsible about the use of some type of protection during sexual intercourse. Among young adults across the world, there are as many as 333 million that contract some type of STD, 1 out of 4 of these cases pertains to individuals in their teenage years. The problems that are associated with sexually transmitted diseases have become so huge that just in the United States, 1 in 5 people will acquire some type of STD during their lifetime.