Unoma Azuah's Blessed Body: The Secret Lives of Nigerian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender is a collection of 37 stories, largely autobiographical, by Nigerians from ages 20 to 50 years residing in Nigeria and various parts of the world. The stories are batched into eight sections that have different significations. The stories constitute not just a means for the writers to present their experiences as lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders, but also a reaction to the diverse debilitating experiences, isolation, condemnation, rejection and humiliating treatments that people of these sexual orientations have suffered in private and public contexts over the ages.

Several of the stories portray the experiences of young people who are inclined to homosexuality. The authors recount their attractions to same sex, their traumas in sustaining passion for same sex in families or environments that repudiate homosexuality. Often times, in pursuit of suitable strategies to deploy to fulfil their eroticism, which is largely despised by their parents, siblings and others, they tend to develop some deviant tendencies, and get pulled deeper into homosexuality.

The first section of the book, titled ‘Discovery: Coming of Age’, has five stories that depict homosexual tendencies among teenagers. Prominently, the children's play of ‘mummy and daddy’ serves as a platform for some of the children to demonstrate their affection for same sex, especially where the actors are of the same sex, since one will inevitably perform the role of the opposite sex. The same actors also narrate their attractions often times to the opposite sex, even though this context of relationship is hardly as vibrant, exciting, motivating or enduring as the same-sex relationship. There is a high degree of pretence and endurance in the former – the person involved in a heterosexual relationship is unsure if what he/she feels is true love. The female often pretends to reach orgasm when making love with a man, and feigns several sounds and expressions to deceive him that she is enjoying the sex act. Essentially, there is an underlying desire among the narrators to be ‘normal’ and meet societal and family expectations of getting married to the opposite sex, and having families. They also recognise the oddity in their sexual inclination to same sex, and their lack of interest for the opposite sex. Consequently, they endure the reactions from the people around them.