Confusion Is Sex is the debut studio album by American noise rock band Sonic Youth.

Confusion Is Sex was recorded by Wharton Tiers in his Chelsea studio (which he had set up in the basement of a building where he worked as a superintendent).

Confusion Is Sex is the only Sonic Youth album on which guitarist Lee Ranaldo plays bass, specifically on the song "Protect Me You".

This album sprays out slivers of ringing, reeling, screaming six-string debris, much of it produced with drumsticks and weird tunings.

Partaking of Branca's dissonance, Flipper's anarchy and PIL's desperation, these Lower East Side arties capture the violence and hope of their neighborhood.