The Sailor’s (syphilis-detecting) Handshake

Victoria Bond demonstrates on Marc West the “Sailor’s Handshake“, used in the old days by sailors meeting eager girls on the docks, to subtly discover if they carried syphilis. I recorded the video in the studio at 2SER as we recorded the Diffusion Science Radio podcast. Victoria and Marc were members of the Diffusion Science Radio team until 2012. You can hear them speak at