NSFW. What would you define as the difference between burlesque and stripping?

Burlesque will involve applause and stripping involves folding money inserted in G-strings.

Burlesque can include ribald jokes and other titillating forms of entertainment that don’t involve removal of clothing. It is more in the manner of mockery than sex. See here

Spinning tassels? and a pole?

Burlesque is the art of the tease, stripping is the art of the turn-on.

Elegance, glamour, maybe even natural beauty.

Burlesque is sexy, adult theater.

Strippers dance around a pole and get naked one dollar at a time.

Some of you seem to look down on stripping. I’m not saying the lifestyle doesn’t have some very serious drawbacks, but have any of you tried it, even in your own homes? Pole dancing well is a freaking skill, and I give those gals major props for having the physical ability and courage to do it.

Class.

I think the main difference is that Burlesque is an early name for strippers, and they overlap.